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PYEONGTAEK, SOUTH KOREA - JUNE 30: U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to U.S. troops at the Osan Airbase on June 20, 2019 in Pyeongtaek, South Korea. U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un briefly met at the Korean demilitarized zone (DMZ) on Sunday, with an intention to revitalize stalled nuclear talks and demonstrate the friendship between both countries. The encounter was the third time Trump and Kim have gotten together in person as both leaders have said they are committed to the "complete denuclearization" of the Korean peninsula. (Photo by Kim Min-Hee - Pool/Getty Images) (Pool/Getty)

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Group behind states' religious freedom laws speaks out Lawmakers in several states are passing bills to protect those who cite religious beliefs for refusing to serve or employ people in the LGBT community. These bills began to crop up in state legislatures soon after the Supreme Court legalized same-sex marriage last year. As Dean Reynolds reports, the same group is behind most of the new legislation.

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New York City's Pride parade has kicked off in a colorful celebration in lower Manhattan. Interested in Pride Month? Add Pride Month as an interest to stay up to date on the latest Pride Month news, video, and analysis from ABC News. Add Interest Millions of spectators are expected to take to the streets of New York in rainbow and glittery garb to show support for the LGBTQ community. The Big Apple's pride celebration was made even more poignant this year on the heels of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots. Seth Wenig/AP Other major U.S. cities like Chicago and San Francisco are also set to celebrate Pride on Sunday. Some cities around the country and around the world hosted their first Pride events ever. In Oklahoma City, Mayor David Holt declared the city's first-ever Pride celebration week this year. Holt said he wanted to demonstrate that all people are welcome in Oklahoma City, which hosted its parade on Saturday. Annapolis, Maryland, also hosted its first Pride parade ever on Saturday. The North Macedonian capital of Skopje even hosted its first pride parade, which went off without a hitch -- and no violence, The Associated Press reported. Elsewhere around the world, Pride events were held in Mexico City, Paraguay and the Ukraine on Saturday.

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British rapper Stormzy performs the headline slot on the Pyramid stage during Glastonbury Festival in Somerset, Britain, June 28, 2019. REUTERS/Henry Nicholls GLASTONBURY, England (Reuters) - A Union Jack emblazoned stab-proof vest worn by British rapper Stormzy for his history-making headline performance at the Glastonbury Music Festival was designed by Banksy, the street artist said on his official Instagram account. Stormzy - the first black British solo performer to take top-billing at the famous festival - delivered a politically charged show that highlighted the inequalities he said were faced by young black people in urban Britain. The stab-vest and crime stats flashing up on screens were references to increased levels of knife crime in London, where the 25-year-old rapper was born, and other British cities. The capital’s crime rate has recently been highlighted by U.S. President Donald Trump, who has clashed with London Mayor Sadiq Khan on Twitter. Banksy, the anonymous street artist who comes from Bristol, 25 miles from the festival in southwest England, said: “I made a customized stab-proof vest and thought - who could possibly wear this?” Stormzy’s performance was hailed as a defining moment for British rap by tens of thousands of fans, political leaders and other artists, including previous headliners Ed Sheeran and Adele. “Stormzy just monumentally headlined Glastonbury in his own right with one album!!,” Adele said. Opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, who spoke at Glastonbury in 2017, said the performance was political and iconic. “It won’t just go down in Glastonbury history - it’ll go down in our country’s cultural history,” he said.

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The New York Times has declared humor to be a form of “Russian-style disinformation,” describing a set of parody websites mocking Democratic Party candidates for president as akin to foreign interference in the 2020 election. The parody websites, which make fun of former vice president Joe Biden, Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), and Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), were created and are run independently by political consultant Patrick Mauldin, who also works for Donald Trump’s re-election campaign “videos and other digital content,” according to the Times. The Biden parody site, which is the most successful, is quite obviously a parody. Visitors to JoeBiden.info are greeted with (real) images of the former vice president groping women at public events. Yet the Times likens the jokes to the kind of ads allegedly placed on the Internet during the 2016 campaign by Russian operatives, with dubious results. The Times calls the parody sites a “disinformation campaign” and compares them to Russian interference: Yet in anonymously trying to exploit the fissures within the Democratic ranks — fissures that ran through this past week’s debates — Mr. Mauldin’s website hews far closer to the disinformation spread by Russian trolls in 2016 than typical political messaging. With nothing to indicate its creator’s motives or employer, the website offers a preview of what election experts and national security officials say Americans can expect to be bombarded with for the next year and a half: anonymous and hard-to-trace digital messaging spread by sophisticated political operatives whose aim is to sow discord through deceit. Trolling, that is, as a political strategy. Notably, the Times has showered praise on parody targeting Republicans. In 2008, for example, it loved Tina Fey’s portrayal of Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, even though many people were fooled into thinking Fey’s comedic lines (“I can see Russia from my house!”) were actually uttered by the former Alaska governor. The sites include disclaimers, such as: “This site is political commentary and parody of Joe Biden’s Presidential campaign website. This is not Joe Biden’s actual website. It is intended for entertainment and political commentary only and is therefore protected under fair use. It is not paid for by any candidate, committee, organization, or PAC. It is a project BY AN American citizen FOR American citizens. Self-Funded.” Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

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DHAKA (Reuters) - The state-run Bangladesh Energy Regulatory Commission (BERC) on Sunday raised natural gas prices by 32.8% on average for all users effective from July 1, the first day of country’s fiscal year, the head of the Commission said. “The price has been hiked only to adjust the huge losses of state-run Petrobangla,” said Monwar Islam, the chairman of the Commission. Petrobangla is incurring losses of about $235 million a month as it currently imports liquefied natural gas from the international market and sells it onto the domestic market at a loss, an official said. BERC last raised natural gas prices by 11% in 2017. Business leaders said with this price hike the industry will lose its competitiveness in the international market. “This huge price hike is a stops us boosting our output and also it will give us strong competition in the international market,” said Anwarul Alam Chowdhury, the President of the Bangladesh Chambers of Industry.

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As it turned out, it was more than a photo op. Donald Trump not only shook hands again with Kim Jong-un and became the first incumbent US president to enter North Korea but also, rather than the expected exchange of pleasantries, sat down with his counterpart and talked for an hour in the demilitarised zone (DMZ) between the Koreas. And there was a tangible outcome. Meetings between US and North Korean working groups will restart four months after they broke down at the Hanoi summit in February. Real negotiations are back on. The question, as ever, is whether they will lead anywhere. There is no question that Trump’s motives for calling the meeting, at a day’s notice, were primarily electoral. Throughout the day, Trump grumbled repeatedly about how he had not been given enough credit from the press for defusing tensions on the Korean peninsula. His own narrative cut a few corners to say the least, omitting to mention that the most dangerous moments – North Korea’s test of a hydrogen bomb and intercontinental ballistic missiles, and his own threats of “fire and fury” – all happened in his first year in office. He insisted that all North Korean nuclear and ballistic missile tests had ceased, by declaring that the short-range solid-fuel missile tests in May were not actually missiles, or even tests. He did not explain. The DMZ meeting was all about shaping a narrative. That why John Bolton, the ultra-hawkish national security adviser, was nowhere to be seen; he had been sent, or sent himself, to Ulanbataar, Mongolia. But the official US party included Tucker Carlson, a Fox News talkshow host, who is Trump’s principal channel to the non-interventionist section of his far-right base. It was reportedly 11th-hour conversations with Carlson that persuaded Trump not to launch missiles against Iran this month, after the downing of a US drone. The fact that Sunday’s meeting with Kim was more than perfunctory suggests that Trump, for all his bluster, is aware that a mere photo op could not guarantee his image as master dealmaker all the way up to the November 2020 presidential election. There had to be some substance, and that would require repairing the damage done in Hanoi. The summit in the Vietnamese capital broke down because the working group talks in the run-up had led Kim (and most observers) to believe the US was open to a step-by-step plan, in which North Korea would dismantle some of its extensive nuclear programme, part of the complex in Yongbyon for example, in return for some relaxation in sanctions. On the first evening of the Hanoi summit, however, Trump took Kim by surprise by presenting a comprehensive, all-for-all, proposal, advocated by Bolton and the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo. The gambit was a flop. Rather than discombobulating Kim into giving up concessions, the North Korean leader was spooked and dug in his heels the next morning. The parties packed their bags early, leaving a ceremonial lunch uneaten on the table. Trump repeated on Sunday that he wanted a “comprehensive” deal, but also hinted heavily he was ready to go back to a phased approach, suggesting some sanctions could be lifted in the course of negotiations, not only at the end. “At some point during the negotiation, things can happen,” Trump said after his meeting. “So we’ll be talking about sanctions.” The man who will be leading the US team to the working groups talks will be Stephen Biegun, the same special envoy who was negotiating the step-by-step approach before Hanoi and Trump’s abrupt change of course. Trump said Kim was “putting somebody in charge [of the North Korean team] who we know and who we like.” But he did not say who that was. No wonder Kim looked so much happier at the DMZ than in Hanoi. He achieved something his father and grandfather had dreamed of: an actual serving US president on North Korean territory (20 metres of it, at least). Trump declared it “an honour” and suggested Kim would be eventually welcome in the White House. This has been the strategic goal of the regime all along, to gain international acceptance as a nuclear-armed state. That strategy means that Kim has no intention of disarming, but he could accept limits on his arsenal – arms control rather than denuclearisation. That will be tough for Trump. It will involve climbing down from his Hanoi posture. And such a deal would be demonstrably worse than the 2015 nuclear agreement with Iran, which Trump withdrew from and is trying to destroy. In that deal, Tehran is not allowed to get within a year of making a single nuclear weapon. For such talks to succeed, Bolton might not only have to be excluded from the DMZ but from the White House too. Far stranger things have happened in this administration and the fact that the president referred to his national security adviser more than once on Sunday as “Mike” Bolton may be a sign. But if Trump does has second thoughts on doing a deal, Kim will know how to turn up the pressure – launch a missile during a campaign rally. That will be the battle of wits in the next phase. For the time being, as Trump said when he thanked Kim for turning up at short notice and mugging for the jostling photographers around them: “You made us both look good.”

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Many Democrats, including those in leadership, believe that President Trump is a danger to the republic and therefore must be impeached by the House and removed from office by the Senate, immediately. Yet they are not prepared to do it until they have had the opportunity to enjoy their summer recess/vacation. FRANK LUNTZ: DEBATES SHOW 'THIS IS NOT YOUR PARENTS' DEMOCRATIC PARTY' Democrats are currently scheduled to depart Washington on August 2 and will not return to work until September 9. Democrats are therefore shutting down their impeachment efforts for the summer, despite their claims that the president is guilty of “high crimes and misdemeanors?” They are willing to leave him in office and continue to govern without any efforts to remove him? If Democrats do, in fact, leave for the summer and halt their impeachment efforts, that will tell you everything you need to know about their true intentions. If our nation was, in fact, suffering a “Constitutional crisis” due to the unlawful acts by a sitting president, they would stay in session and burn the midnight oil to save our nation from such a rogue and dangerous leader. Wouldn’t they? Democrats know that the American people “check out” for the summer. They are on vacation with their families and will not return their focus to news and politics until after Labor Day. This is especially true in a presidential election cycle where the president is running for re-election. Add to that the fact that there are over 20 Democrats vying for their party’s nomination, and many of them are members of Congress who don’t want to leave the campaign trail to be bogged down in impeachment or removal proceedings. They want the issue, but do not want the process. When Democrats return to Congress in September they will pick up where they left off. They will schedule hearings, hold news conferences and will issue subpoenas. They will return to the whole impeachment and removal process, if they are allowed to, without missing a beat. There is no Constitutional crisis. Democrats are using and abusing their power and trampling the Constitution by using impeachment and removal as a sword to impale a political enemy, rather than as a shield to guard the Constitution and the people from a president who has in fact committed “high crimes and misdemeanors” while in office. If the president was such a danger to the country, I can assure you Democrats and Republicans would be united and that impeachment proceedings would have begun and continued through the Fourth of July weekend, and through the summer. Democrats admit that impeachment and removal is a “political process.” Everything about their efforts to impeach and remove President Trump has been political. From the day he was elected, to the day he was sworn in, to today – Democrats have advocated for his removal from office. The only thing lacking in their efforts is the evidence of “high crimes and misdemeanors.” Their efforts rise and fall with the election cycle, media cycle and now, the vacation schedule. Let’s remember: It was Democrats in Congress who demanded the appointment of an “independent counsel,” to be appointed by the attorney general, to investigate the president with regard to ‘high crimes and misdemeanors” committed as president, and crimes that may have been committed prior to him being elected. It was Democrats who said they would abide by the decision of an independent counsel and who had faith in Robert Mueller conducting a fair and impartial investigation. When Mueller finished his more than two-year investigation and came back with no indictments of the president and no evidence sufficient to criminally charge him – it was Democrats who cried foul. And now it is Democrats who say it is their job to determine whether or not the president has engaged in “high crimes and misdemeanors,” not an independent counsel. Democrats are in fact quite brazen in their admission that impeachment and removal of a president is a “political process” and not a legal process. The Democrats’ actions post-Mueller Report are a desperate political ploy to so damage the president that he will be unelectable come 2020. It is the Democrats in Congress who are colluding and conspiring to subvert the presidential election results in 2020 by using their power in violation of their Constitutional authority and powers. The American people are smarter than Democrats give them credit for. They know there is no “Constitutional Crisis.” They know that if Mueller had found “high crimes and misdemeanors” against the president he would have said so. If the president was such a danger to the country, I can assure you Democrats and Republicans would be united and that impeachment proceedings would have begun and continued through the Fourth of July weekend, and through the summer. Democrats remind me of the “boy who cried wolf.” They cried that the president was guilty of crimes, yet the independent counsel failed to find evidence of this. They said they had evidence yet never produced it. Now, they are doing it again, proclaiming the urgency to proceed with impeachment … yet they are taking the summer off. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The Democrats’ dislike of the president has clouded their judgment and derailed their morals. Colluding and conspiring to wrongfully remove a president sounds a lot like obstruction of justice and criminal interference with an electoral process. The very charges they have alleged against the president without success. Perhaps we need the immediate appointment of an independent counsel to investigate Congress? CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM BRADLEY BLAKEMAN

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June 30 (Reuters) - Nordea, one of the Nordic region’s biggest banks, said on Sunday its Chief Executive Casper von Koskull would retire by the end of 2020 and it had begun the process of finding a successor for the 58-year-old. Koskull joined Nordea in 2010 after working at Goldman Sachs and was named President and Group CEO in November 2015. “Casper will turn 60 in 2020 and has wished to make that the point of retirement following a long and intense career in banking,” Nordea said in a statement. Nordea booked a 95 million euro ($108 million) provision in April for a possible fine for alleged money-laundering, and also posted a bigger-than-expected drop in its first-quarter operating profit. Nordic banks are facing intense scrutiny after Danske Bank became embroiled in a huge money laundering scandal at its Estonian branch. ($1 = 0.8797 euros) (Reporting by Shubham Kalia in Bengaluru; Editing by Alexander Smith)

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Quite a few Democrats vying for their party's 2020 presidential nomination are latching onto Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders' Medicare for All plan, but at least one is pumping the brakes and pointing out the policy's flaws. Rep. Tim Ryan, D-Ohio, said that while he is in favor of a "public option" for health care, adopting a plan that would eliminate people's existing private insurance is not the way to go. DNC CHAIR PEREZ DEFENDS FREE HEALTHCARE FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS: 'THIS IS NOT A HANDOUT' "I am not for taking private insurance away," Ryan said on Fox News' "Sunday Morning Futures," adding, "We cannot be a party that goes into a general election taking private health insurance away from union members in some of these states that negotiated pretty good health care plans for themselves." Ryan noted that unions may have "sacrificed wages during the negotiations to get a good health care plan." Ryan claimed that Medicare for All would work in the future, but said the U.S. cannot jump straight to it from the existing private insurance system. He proposed that the "natural next step" would be a public option that people could choose to buy into, and then "some type of Medicare for All system at some point." The Ohio congressman also discussed medical coverage for those in the U.S. illegally. During the second night of debates, all ten participants said that their government healthcare plans would cover illegal immigrants. Ryan said that while he would grant these people "some basic care," he thinks covering them under Medicare is "a whole other conversation that we need to have." Another issue where Ryan is more to the center than others in his party is how to address the ongoing crisis at the U.S.-Mexico border. While some Democrats like New York's Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez have called for abolishing U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Ryan said more resources are needed. "No one's gonna secure the border better than I am," Ryan said. "I want to make sure we have enough personnel down there." Ryan also pointed to what he believes is the real problem, which is that so many people feel the need to flee their home countries in the first place. TRUMP: DEMS' HEALTH CARE STANCE FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS WILL HELP ME WIN REELECTION "Why are these people migrating to the United States? Because gangs are running Honduras and Guatemala and El Salvador," he said. "So a real president would say, 'Let's get to the root of the problem, let's fix it so these people can stay in their own homes in Central America.'"

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Data shows Twitter primary differs from the 'real world' The emerging social media narrative may be missing the larger story of the 2020 campaign.

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CLOSE Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived Thursday in Pyongyang for a two-day state visit to North Korea. China's state broadcaster CCTV showed huge crowds of people at the airport, waving flowers and chanting slogans to welcome Xi. (June 20) AP, AP WASHINGTON – Last fall, Hugh Griffiths received startling new evidence that North Korea was violating global economic sanctions: a photograph of Kim Jong Un emerging from a sleek, black Rolls-Royce Phantom limousine, on his way to a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. United Nations' sanctions bar North Korea from purchasing certain luxury goods – such as jewelry, yachts and limos, like the one Kim used to ferry him around Pyongyang last October, when Pompeo visited to press Kim to follow through on his pledge to relinquish North Korea's nuclear arsenal. Until recently, Griffiths was coordinator of the United Nations' panel devoted to documenting North Korea's clandestine purchase and sale of banned goods – from multi-million-dollar petroleum transfers to a batch of suspected Belarusian vodka. The pictures of Kim stepping out of the Rolls-Royce limo opened a new line of inquiry for Griffiths and his team at the U.N., one that was both promising and troubling. Troubling because if Kim could evade the global sanctions network to sneak in something as big as a limousine, the North Koreans were almost certainly smuggling in more pernicious goods as well. "That's what was going on in my mind," Griffiths told USA TODAY in a recent interview. His term at the U.N. expired this summer, and he spoke via phone from England. He is an expert in transportation trafficking and clandestine political economies who previously worked for other governments and research organizations in Eastern Europe and elsewhere. "If you can smuggle luxury limos into North Korea, which is done by shipping container, that means you can smuggle in smaller components – dual-use items for ballistic and nuclear programs … That's the really worrying thing." A 'consistent pattern of extravagance' The Trump administration has successfully pushed to tighten U.N. sanctions on North Korea, winning support in 2017 for a ban on the country's coal and other exports. Nikki Haley, then Trump's ambassador to the U.N., called the measures "the most stringent set of sanctions on any country in a generation." Donald Trump says he got another 'beautiful' letter from North Korea's Kim Jong Un Trump has touted his "maximum pressure" campaign as a key factor in Kim's decision to negotiate over North Korea's nuclear arsenal. Two previous Trump-Kim summits, first in Singapore last summer and then in Hanoi this year, have not yet yielded any concrete steps by North Korea to relinquish its weapons. And the North Koreans have found many ways to skirt that "maximum pressure" campaign, according to the U.N. investigators. Chairman Kim Jong Un of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea arrives for a working lunch with Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo in Pyongyang, Democratic People's Republic of Korea on October 7, 2018. (Photo: State Department ) "The country continues to defy Security Council resolutions through a massive increase in illegal ship-to-ship transfers of petroleum products and coal," the U.N. concluded in a March report, the last before Griffiths' departure. "These violations render the latest United Nations sanctions ineffective by flouting the caps on the import of petroleum products and crude oil." Sung-Yon Lee, a Korean Studies professor at Tufts University's Fletcher School, said Kim spends $650 million to $700 million a year importing luxury goods, from top-shelf liquor to ski jets, according to data from South Korea's intelligence agencies. "It’s a consistent pattern of extravagance," he said. The Chinese are "the biggest culprits" in enabling North Korea evade sanctions. "But when it comes to non-compliance and non-enforcement, much of the world, including the U.S., is to be blamed as well," Lee added. "No one relishes doing the hard work of sanctions enforcement. But it's the one non-lethal, legitimate, effective diplomatic arrow in the U.S. quiver." On Sunday, Trump met with Kim at the border that separates North and South Korea in a splashy gambit to restart the stalled negotiations. The two leaders agreed to send negotiating teams back to the table, although there were no specifics announced. President Donald Trump makes remarks to the press as he departs the White House for a weekend at the presidential retreat at Camp David, Md., on June 22, 2019. (Photo: Mike Theiler, epa-efe) Negotiations between North Korea and the U.S. over its nuclear program stretch back more than two decades, but those efforts have all failed to stop North Korea's weapons program. Trump says he's not 'personally bothered' by North Korea missile tests Griffiths said Kim's decision to flaunt his new limo during last fall's meeting with Pompeo – even as the two were meeting to negotiate a potential nuclear deal – was a deliberate signal to the U.S. and the rest of the international community: He can thumb his nose at the sanctions. "It's very important to identify how this Rolls-Royce got there, because Chairman Kim is clearly trying to send a message that he's taking the sanctions with a pinch of salt," he said. And the sanctions, he added, "represent the only real threat to Chairman Kim's current trajectory." Hunting a phantom limousine But Kim's brazen move also offered the U.N. team a tantalizing new lead. The U.N. experts had previously traced another North Korean limo to a Chinese businessman and made inroads into closing off that smuggling line, and Griffiths hoped for the same result this time. Their first step was simple: take the public images coming out of Pyongyang and look for any stand-out identifiers on the luxury vehicle, which carries a price tag of at least $450,000, according to Car and Driver magazine. The automakers' trademark "R" was clearly visible on the hub cap, and the U.N. team found a few other distinguishing features as well. Off went an inquiry to Rolls-Royce's manufacturer. The company offered a limited response: The vehicle was probably made between August 2012 and February 2017 at its facility in England. A spokesman for Rolls-Royce Motor Cars declined to respond to USA TODAY's questions, including how many such vehicles were manufactured in that time period and why it was not able to provide further identifying information. "We have responded fully to all questions put to us by the authorities at the U.N. and have no further comment," Andrew Ball, the spokesman, said in an email. Negotiations between Trump, North Korea at a standstill, but optimism still in force at DMZ Griffiths said it was a far different answer than he'd gotten from Mercedes-Benz when the panel tried to track several of that automaker’s limousines in 2015 and 2016. "Mercedes-Benz went the extra mile to look into their databases and through a process of elimination, identify the limousines in question," he told USA TODAY. That allowed the U.N. investigators to find the last company to have the Mercedes' limos before they ended up in North Korea. They determined that those limos were transported via a shipping container from the port of Long Beach, California, to Dalian, China, at the direction of George Ma, the Chinese businessman, according to the U.N. report. A 2016 U.N. report said Ma's company had previously been involved in shipping "arms-related material" to the Republic of the Congo. Ma did not respond to an email seeking comment. The North Korean cargo ship, Wise Honest, sits at the main docking section at Port of Pago Pago on Saturday. It was seized by the U.S. because of suspicion it was used to violate international sanctions. (Photo: Fili Sagapolutele, AP) In March, the Trump administration slapped new sanctions on one of the firms that shipped the Mercedes, Liaoning Danxing International Forwarding Co. "Liaoning Danxing routinely used deceptive practices that enabled EU-based North Korean procurement officials to operate and purchase goods for the DPRK regime," Treasury said in its March announcement. The Democratic People's Republic of Korea is the official name for North Korea. "At least with the Mercedes, the panel fingered Liaoning Danxing" and publicly named Ma – helping to close off that pathway for smuggling items to and from North Korea, Griffiths said. But the probe into the Rolls-Royce appears to have stalled. Although the U.N. panel is continuing its investigation, Griffiths said it's hard to make headway without the vehicle's identification information. A 'shiny object' for propaganda? And now, another new limo has been spotted in North Korea: earlier this year, Kim was seen riding in an armored Mercedes-Maybach S600, which costs at least $500,000, according to The Drive, an automotive news outlet. "There's an established system by which these prohibited luxury goods are being smuggled in," said Griffiths. Joshua Stanton, a lawyer and blogger who has helped Congress draft North Korea sanctions legislation, agreed that the appearance of the limo signals a troubling loophole in enforcement. But he said it's by no means an indication that the sanctions are ineffective. Rather than being a snub at the sanctions, Stanton said Kim is using the limo as a "shiny object" to disguise just how devastating the sanctions have been. "It's a manipulation," said Stanton. "They are absolutely trying to project to the world that the sanctions don’t work – when in fact, the sanctions that really matter are the financial sanctions, and there is significant evidence that they are working." He said there are indications that rich and poor North Koreans are struggling. A U.N. assessment released in May found that more than 10 million North Koreans were "suffering 'severe food shortages' after the worst harvest in a decade." Stanton said there is also evidence that North Korean government agencies are competing for diminishing resources and "the elite upper-classes in Pyongyang, who had lived like oligarchs, are showing signs of financial distress." The sanctions on luxury goods are important "because of the message they send to the world," he added, " ... but the North Koreans messaging the world in their own way here." Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/06/30/north-korea-kim-jong-un-evade-un-sanctions-get-luxury-limo-despite-trump-maximum-pressure/1523974001/

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Image copyright Getty Images US President Donald Trump has met North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ), an area that divides the two Koreas. Mr Trump became the first sitting US president to step foot in North Korea after crossing the demarcation line. Image copyright Reuters Mr Kim said their meeting was a symbol of their "excellent" friendship. Mr Trump said it was a "great day for the world". Image copyright Getty Images Mr Trump invited Mr Kim to meet him at the DMZ on Twitter. Mr Trump said had the North Korean leader not turned up, "the press was going to make me look very bad." Image copyright Reuters South Korean President Moon Jae-in joined Mr Kim and Mr Trump at the DMZ. Mr Moon said 80m people on the Korean Peninsula had been given hope on denuclearisation and peace. Image copyright Reuters The two leaders were only due to meet for a short time, but ended up speaking for around an hour. In a news conference, Mr Trump confirmed that he had invited Mr Kim to the White House but nothing has been formally arranged. Image copyright Getty Images In South Korea, people watched the meeting on television screens. Image copyright Reuters White House advisers Ivanka Trump and Jared Kushner were also part of the group visiting the DMZ. Ms Trump described the event as "surreal". Image copyright Getty Images Ahead of the meeting, Mr Trump and Mr Moon visited a nearby observation post. Image copyright Getty Images Mr Trump's business suit was in contrast to his predecessor Barack Obama who wore a bomber jacket and binoculars - and may have been intended to send a different message about the visit. Image copyright AFP After his talks with Mr Kim, the US president flew by helicopter to address military personnel stationed in South Korea in Osan Air Base, south of Seoul. He told them stepping into North Korea had been "a historic moment and a very good moment". All images copyright.

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Carola Rackete says act of ‘disobedience’ in Lampedusa was necessary to avert tragedy An NGO rescue boat captain who has risked jail time after forcing her way into Lampedusa port in Italy with 40 migrants onboard has defended her act of “disobedience”, saying it was necessary to avert a tragedy. “It wasn’t an act of violence, but only one of disobedience,” the Sea-Watch 3 skipper, Carola Rackete, told the Italian daily Corriere della Sera in an interview published on Sunday, as donations poured in for her legal defence. Rackete, 31, from Germany, is accused of putting a military speedboat and the safety of its occupants at risk in the incident on Saturday. Rescue ship captain arrested for breaking Italian blockade Read more “The situation was desperate,” she said. “My goal was only to bring exhausted and desperate people to shore. My intention was not to put anyone in danger. I already apologised, and I reiterate my apology.” The Sea-Watch 3 had rescued the migrants off the coast of Libya 17 days earlier. They were finally allowed to disembark at Lampedusa and taken to a reception centre as they prepared to travel to either France, whose interior ministry said it would take in 10 of them, or to Germany, Finland, Luxembourg or Portugal. The Italian coastguard seized the rescue boat, anchoring it just off the coast. Rackete, who was placed under house arrest, is expected to appear before a judge early this week in the Sicilian town of Agrigento to answer charges of abetting illegal immigration and forcing her way past a military vessel that tried to block the Sea-Watch 3. The latter crime is punishable by three to 10 years in jail. Her arrest prompted a fundraising appeal launched by two prominent German TV stars, which had raised more than €350,000 (£314,000) by midday on Sunday. The comedian Jan Böhmermann, who launched the campaign with the TV presenter Klaas Heufer-Umlauf, said in a video posted on YouTube: “We are convinced that someone who saves lives is not a criminal. Anyone who thinks otherwise is simply wrong.” Rackete has become a leftwing hero in Italy for challenging the “closed-ports” policy of the far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini. “I didn’t have the right to obey,” Rackete said. “They were asking me to take them back to Libya. From a legal standpoint, these were people fleeing a country at war [and] the law bars you from taking them back there.” The head of the NGO that operates the ship, Johannes Bayer, said Sea-Watch was “proud of our captain”. Böhmermann accused Salvini of “abusing rescuers at the Mediterranean Sea in order to turn the mood against refugees, against EU, and for an inhumane politics”. Salvini welcomed Rackete’s arrest. “Mission accomplished,” he tweeted. “Law-breaking captain arrested. Pirate ship seized, maximum fine for foreign NGO.”

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It's a proud Independence Day tradition, naturalization ceremonies for new U.S. citizens across the land, including one at Monticello, the home of Thomas Jefferson. Yet even as others take the oath of citizenship this Thursday, a refugee from the Caribbean is continuing his fight for the right to stay. This is the story of how Ansly Damus, a 42-year-old asylum seeker from Haiti, came to be living in Melody Hart and Gary Benjamin's upstairs bedroom in Cleveland Heights, Ohio. Melody and Gary told Ted Koppel of "CBS Sunday Morning" no discussion was needed before taking Ansly in. "We knew that could be his room without talking to each other," Gary said. Gary, Melody and a bunch of neighbors who began calling themselves "Ansly's Army" were outraged that an asylum seeker who had committed no crime, was spending endless months in jail. He clearly needed help and they were ready to provide it. But we're getting a little ahead of ourselves. Back in Haiti, where he was a teacher, Ansly spoke Creole and French. He taught mathematics and physics and ethics and pedagogy. You know, "pedagogy," the theory and practice of education. Ansly Damus is an educated man. His troubles began back in Haiti in 2014, when one of his former teachers went into politics. Ansly began peppering his lectures with references to that teacher's corruption. In retaliation, he says in a court statement, the politician sent thugs to beat him and threaten his life. Ansly's father called him and told him to get out. "'Leave your house. Leave your house,'" Ansly recalled him saying. Ansly was afraid, he says, that if he stayed, his wife and two children would be in danger. So he left Haiti, ending up in Brazil. After 18 months, he says, he found Brazil too violent and claims he encountered too much discrimination. So he decided to come to the United States. Baja, California, is where Ansly sought asylum, where he was processed by the border patrol and ultimately shipped to a jail outside Cleveland to await his day in court. That turned into a very long stay. "Two years, 27 days," Ansly said. Understand, a jail is not the same as a prison. Jails are meant for short stays. This jail doesn't have exercise facilities, inside or outside. And you can't see through the windows. After his first six months in jail, Ansly got word that an immigration judge, had ruled in his favor, but twice, Ansly was granted asylum by immigration courts and twice the government successfully appealed. All the while, Ansly stayed in jail. According to Cecillia Wang, the deputy legal director of the American Civil Liberties Union, the long-term detention of asylum seekers is pretty commonplace these days. "The vast majority of people who are now in immigration custody, 50,000 human beings on any given day, have no criminal record," Wang said. "They are fighting their deportation cases, and the majority of them don't pose a flight risk or a danger; and we are spending our tax money to lock people up in these abominable conditions." The Trump administration makes no bones about trying to discourage asylum seekers; and Ansly Damus was certainly getting discouraged. For more than a year, Ansly's only visitor had been his pro-bono lawyer. Until one day, out of the blue, Melody Hart and Gary Benjamin showed up. "He'd been in jail about 14 months when we decided we would apply for-- to be sponsors," Melody said. Melody, a financial consultant, and her husband, Gary, an attorney, learned about Ansly through a friend. They went to visit him; but even that was an arm's length proposition. "You sit there and you pick up the phone and you look at him in a monitor, and he sees you in a monitor," Melody said. Now, here's the problem, noise level, hard to hear, you don't speak French, he doesn't speak English at that point. "I don't understand Melody," Ansly said. "She talk and I… yeah." But he understood he had a sponsor. "After Melody and Gary come, I-- my life change," Ansly said. It was the difference between a life of isolation and having a support network. "What we could do is put money in his commissary account," Melody said. "He wanted to be able to go to the commissary because he couldn't get soap or toothpaste or a toothbrush," Gary said. "They didn't hand those out, you had to buy them." To give him a connection to the outside world, Melody and Gary started sending Ansly photos of their house to show him where he'd be living when he came out. "'Here's your room, here's the yard and here's the dog,'" Melody said. "But then we'd take pictures of the seasons because he hadn't seen it. So we took pictures of the leaves turning we sent him snow pictures." Loneliness, though, remained a constant problem. "He wanted more companionship," Gary said. "So we started talking to people about sending him letters and sending him cards. And when we couldn't go on some Sundays, other people would fill in." Which is how Ansly's Army got its start. It's forces rallied outside the ICE office in Cleveland, urging his release from jail; and they began holding regular meetings. At this point, Gary and Melody still hadn't been officially approved as sponsors. Ansly's release from jail was rejected on the grounds that he was a flight risk and lacked community support. "So we did our second application," Gary said. "We tried to make it bulletproof. We got our bishop endorsing us, three doctors, a local judge, a priest, a rabbi. It was a pretty good showing of support in the community." And it was rejected again. "Flight risk and-- and not enough contact in the community," Gary said. That's when the ACLU filed a petition stating that Ansly's detention was unlawful. The government was keeping him locked up indefinitely and denying his release without providing any evidence. "We went to court and we chartered a bus and got Ansly's Army on the bus," Melody said. Melody said 35 people showed up for Ansly. "We filled the courtroom," Melody said. "They had to pull in more chairs." Which clearly had the intended impact on the judge. "And she said, 'Well, you know, it says here that he has no community ties. Who are all these people?'" Melody said. "And she says, 'So I'm just gonna cross that off if that's not a valid reason.'" And, last November before the judge had a chance to rule, the government finally agreed to release Ansly from jail, on the condition that he wear an ankle bracelet, and live with his sponsors, Melody and Gary, while his asylum case is being appealed. Ansly's Army is still active. Last winter, they held a fundraiser raising $10,000. He is studying English diligently, in class and also with volunteer tutors from his army. He now gets himself to one part-time job doing maintenance at a church. He also works part-time as an electrician restoring houses. As for the troops in Ansly's Army, they're involved in more of a crusade than a military operation "A reason why I got involved is because I felt that the way Ansly was treated was so un-American," one member said. "I wanted to stand up for principles that I think are important for this country." "I think we're all people of faith, deep faith," another said. "In our values and how we treat other human beings." Which brings us back to Gary and Melody and that upstairs bedroom, now occupied by Ansly Damus. All in all, it could be two years before his asylum case is finally resolved. In the meantime, Ansly video-chats with his wife and kids every day. And, yes, he is thinking about how and when he can bring them to Cleveland. "I told my wife all the time - Cleveland is very cool," Ansly said. "I don't have life before. People in Cleveland give me my life."

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President Donald Trump steps into the northern side of the Military Demarcation Line that divides North and South Korea, as North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un looks on, in the Joint Security Area (JSA) of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) on June 30, 2019. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Getty Images President Donald Trump became the first sitting commander in chief to set foot in North Korea on Sunday when he met dictator Kim Jong Un at the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). Trump stepped into North Korea at 3:46 p.m. local time and walked 10 steps with Kim by his side. Trump stayed in officially hostile territory for about one minute before he and Kim walked back into South Korea. “It is good to see you again,” Kim told Trump through an interpreter. “I never expected to meet you in this place.” Trump seemed eager to highlight the historic moment he had launched with what he had described as a spur-of-the-moment tweet: “Big moment, big moment.” Trump also invited Kim to the United States. Here is the moment US President Donald Trump became the first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea The two leaders met in the demilitarised zone - Mr Trump says Mr Kim invited him over Read live updates: https://t.co/4EVuh2fyOm pic.twitter.com/u3iMPyhdWy — BBC Breaking News (@BBCBreaking) June 30, 2019 Trump celebrated the moment on Twitter. “Stood on the soil of North Korea,” he wrote, “an important statement for all, and a great honor!” Leaving South Korea after a wonderful meeting with Chairman Kim Jong Un. Stood on the soil of North Korea, an important statement for all, and a great honor! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 30, 2019 Although the hastily organized encounter—that came after Trump extended an invitation via Twitter that Kim said he was “surprised” to receive—was supposed to be little more than a handshake, it led to a 50-minute meeting between the two leaders. Trump and Kim agreed to restart stalled nuclear talks with the U.S. president saying both sides would set up teams to see how they could restart negotiations. “We just had a very, very good meeting,” Trump said. “We’ll see what can happen.” Kim expressed optimism that the symbolic act could turn into real progress, and said it shows both sides want to forge a new path. “This has a lot of significance because it means that we want to bring an end to the unpleasant past and try to create a new future, so it’s a very courageous and determined act,” Kim said. Trump said it had been a “great honor” to step into North Korea. “A lot of progress has been made, a lot of friendships have been made and this has been in particular a great friendship,” Trump said. North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump shake hands during a meeting on the south side of the Military Demarcation Line that divides North and South Korea, in the Joint Security Area (JSA) of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized zone (DMZ) on June 30, 2019. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Getty Images Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said talks will likely begin “sometime in July.” Just because talks will resume doesn’t mean the sides are any closer to reaching a deal. Although Trump and Kim were optimistic when they met for the first time in Singapore in June of last year talks pretty much broke down after the second summit in Hanoi in February. Trump insisted now that he’s not expecting quick progress. “Trump said he and Kim were “not looking for speed. We’re looking to get it right.” Even though the setting was historic though, critics were quick to describe the meeting as nothing more than a made-for-television moment from a president who loves grand gestures but often fails at the follow up. And while the president loves to take credit for decreasing tensions with North Korea, critics often point out he was the one who increased them with personal taunts against Kim, who he once called “Little Rocket Man.” “Once you move past the striking backdrop, however, there is a persistent and deepening skepticism among many experts that Trump is pursuing anything more than his own narrow interests,” notes the Associated Press. A handout photo provided by Dong-A Ilbo of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and President Donald Trump inside the demilitarized zone (DMZ) separating the South and North Korea on June 30, 2019 in Panmunjom, South Korea. Handout/Getty Images Some, however, were eager to see the glass half full, saying that at the very least it could bring about the start of new approach to talks and a sign that Trump may be willing to accept a compromise that fall short of full disarmament. “This meeting could lead to a more substantive meeting down the road, later in the year,” Sue Mi Terry, who served as a National Security Council aide specializing in Korean affairs under presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama told the New York Times. “I do think Kim could offer just enough on the negotiating table such as the Yongbyon nuclear facility plus yet another suspected nuclear facility in order to secure an interim deal with Trump and at least some sanctions relief.” At the very least, Trump stepping foot in North Korea can help Kim feel “less threatened,” which is key to making progress in talks, John Delury, a Korea expert at Seoul’s Yonsei University, said. In his weekly address in St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis praised the meeting between Kim and Trump. “I salute the protagonists, with a prayer that such a significant gesture will be a further step on the road to peace, not only on that peninsula, but for the good of the entire world,” he said.

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Image copyright Google Image caption Tees, Esk and Wear Valley NHS Foundation Trust is taking "urgent action" A mental health hospital for young people has had admissions temporarily suspended by a health watchdog. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) said it had taken action "to protect the safety and welfare of residents" at West Lane Hospital in Middlesbrough. The CQC said it could not give further details until its report was published. The Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Trust said it was "taking immediate and urgent actions" to address concerns raised by the CQC. Chief executive Colin Martin said: "Alternative arrangements for the care of individuals who might require admission have been made with the support of neighbouring Trusts and NHS England." A note on the hospital's page on the CQC website said the watchdog had "suspended the ratings for child and adolescent mental health wards on this page while we investigate concerns about this service". Disciplinary action Concerns were first raised with the trust in November and an investigation overseen by the CQC was launched. In March it was then revealed 13 members of staff were facing disciplinary proceedings over the alleged ill treatment of patients. These were among 20 who had been suspended over claims they used "non-approved" techniques. The other seven were to be retrained before returning to work. The trust has been told it needs to make urgent to improvements to the recording of observations, risk assessments and staffing levels. It says patient safety and welfare is a priority and it is working closely with the CQC.

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Next year, an Arab country will host the G20 summit for the first time. What country has earned this honour? Such recognition as a player in this powerful global club? Its impressive climb in this regard is even more remarkable given that only a few short months ago, this Arab state was supposedly on its way to pariah status. That’s right. Saudi Arabia is hosting the 2020 summit, managing to not only overcome the reputational damage of the murder of Jamal Khashoggi in the country’s consulate in Turkey less than a year ago, but also doing so just weeks after more grisly details of the killing were revealed. Saudi officials were reported to have referred to Khashoggi as “the sacrificial animal” while discussing how he was to be dismembered. Saudi’s moment of coming in from the (relative) cold even had an official photo at last week’s G20 summit. All the world leaders lined up, looked at the camera and waved, apart from Donald Trump and Mohammed bin Salman – lost in mutual adoration – who only had eyes for each other. To drive Putin’s point home even more brutally, Trump exchanged some friendly badinage with the Russian president Vladimir Putin’s comments to the Financial Times at the G20 about the death of liberalism (an idea that has “outlived its purpose”) could not have come at a more appropriate moment. It felt like a eulogy to the memory of Khashoggi’s murder. Putin’s just a troll, some said, best ignored. He wants attention, it’s a diversion, have you seen the state of Russia’s economy? And how do you define liberalism anyway? All this is true. Putin might not be the best qualified political scientist to define what liberalism is and when it is in decline, but I think it is fair to say that liberalism is not in the greatest of health. Before we get lost in definitional defensiveness, I don’t mean the everyday sort of liberalism, one that is probably better described as cosmopolitanism. The kind that makes you look around your diverse locality, the quiet tolerance of the majority and think that all is well. Not the kind of liberalism that is borne out by polls showing that there is increased acceptance of immigration or LGBT people. Or the liberalism of technical democracy, where we still elect leaders in free and fair(ish) elections. This is corporate campaign liberalism, new Arsenal kit launch, urban fist-bumping liberalism. What is in trouble is the liberalism that underscores political process, legislation and mobilisation. We live in a time where individual liberty and the spoils of freedom are meted out based on a racial and economic hierarchy, where political victories are won by promising that rights and privileges will be taken away from those who haven’t “earned it” – the poor, the undocumented and the simply different – a divide between the deserving and the undeserving. It is more than rhetoric; lives are directly affected by this, further disenfranchised by the loss of benefits, the impossibility of full and legal settlement in a new country, and the everyday stigmatisation of Muslims. “Plain speaking” and being “done with political correctness” is cover for this segregation of rights. Play Video 1:11 Trump tells Putin: don't meddle in the US presidential election - video That was the most chilling aspect of Putin’s comments – it is not hard to imagine them being spoken by a supposedly more genteel western politician. Criticism of multiculturalism, scaremongering on trans identity (“They claim now that children can play five or six gender roles,” said Putin,) and the rhetoric of the elite abandoning the “real people” is all too common. As much as we try to put clear daylight between the state of Anglo-American liberalism and Putin’s shambolic dictatorship, the more the facts confound us. Donald Tusk, presumably imagining himself in a sort of West Wing version of the EU, disagreed so much with Putin that, unfortunately, in his indignation he ended up reinforcing the point. What Tusk finds “really obsolete is authoritarianism, personality cults and the rule of oligarchs”. Authoritarianism, personality cults and the rule of oligarchs? We certainly could not see that in the UK, where the Conservative party is on its way to self-destruction while it drags the country with it for the sake of power sought through appealing to an authoritarian populist streak. And where a man such as Boris Johnson is about to become prime minister on the back of a personality cult worshipped by a narrow Conservative electorate, and billionaires (we don’t call them oligarchs here, that’s reserved for foreigners) are investigated for breaking the law in funding political campaigns. Just to drive Putin’s point home even more brutally, Trump exchanged some friendly badinage with the Russian president at the beginning of their first formal meeting at the summit. Referring to journalists, Trump said, “Get rid of them. Fake news is a great term, isn’t it? You don’t have this problem in Russia but we do.” Putin responded, in English: “We also have. It’s the same.” A warm chuckle followed. A few days later, Trump became the first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea after making overtures to Kim Jong-un. Trump looks no longer like an anomaly – more like a member of the demagogue gang. Forget Putin’s ‘liberalism’ jibe. This man runs a war machine | Natalie Nougayrède Read more There is still a fixation on the practical differences between straight dictatorships such as Saudi Arabia, Russia and North Korea and western countries where the practical processes of universal suffrage and rule of law are still in place. No one is seizing power by force or suspending constitutions here. But the belief in this rigid distinction is a narcissism that fails to account for all the ways a liberal order can be undermined within the confines of what appears a robust democracy. Putin put it rather well when pressed by the FT on the fact that he was handed power from Boris Yeltsin 20 years ago. He shrugged: “So what?” Sitting in the UK as Johnson is about to be the second unelected PM in a row, ruling a party and a country paralysed by a hastily and poorly planned referendum, I would say the same to those who argue that at least we live in a democracy. So what? • Nesrine Malik is a Guardian columnist

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Video On 3 June Sudan's security forces opened fire on peaceful demonstrators calling for a civilian administration. Doctors said more than 120 people were killed. The authorities said 61 died. The bloody crackdown left Sudan's streets quiet - until now. Produced and filmed by Charlotte Pamment and Efrem Gebreab

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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Many protesters waved Chinese flags at the rally in Tamar Park Tens of thousands of pro-Beijing protesters are rallying in support of the police in Hong Kong. The demonstrators, dressed in white and blue and waving Chinese flags, oppose the anti-extradition protests that have taken over the city this month. Two record-breaking rallies were held against a proposed law that would see suspects extradited to mainland China. On 12 June police used tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse crowds - the worst violence in the city in decades. Hong Kong's justice secretary Teresa Cheng later ruled out an investigation into police brutality. However, the demonstrations forced the government to apologise and suspend the planned bill. How big is the pro-police rally? Local media say about 165,000 pro-Beijing protesters turned up to the rally in Tamar Park on Sunday. This is far fewer than the number of people who protested against the extradition bill - activist groups put the figure at about two million for the latest rally. However it is a sign of significant pro-Beijing movement in the territory. Image copyright AFP "I can't put up with people's behaviour towards police," Frances Yu, 70, told AFP news agency. A 54-year-old office worker, who gave his name only as Wong, also told AFP police were trying to "maintain order", and called the anti-extradition protesters "senseless". A few dozen counter-protesters have also been demonstrating nearby. Why have people been protesting? The controversial bill would have allowed extradition to mainland China, Taiwan and Macau for suspects accused of crimes such as rape and murder. Hong Kong has been part of China since 1997 under the "one country, two systems" principle, which allows it freedoms not seen on the mainland, including judicial independence. But protesters fear the bill could bring Hong Kong more decisively under China's control. Now that the bill has been suspended, protesters have four basic demands: the complete withdrawal of the bill the revocation of the term "riot" to describe the 12 June protests the release of all detained activists the investigation of police violence Joshua Wong, one of the leaders of pro-democracy protests in 2014, was released early from jail on 17 June. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption "Carrie Lam must step down" - Joshua Wong Addressing supporters and the media after his release, he called for the city's Beijing-backed leader Carrie Lam to stand down. Will there be any more anti-extradition rallies? Another mass rally against the extradition bill is being planned for Monday, to coincide with the 22nd anniversary of the handover of Hong Kong to China. Hong Kong Chief Secretary Matthew Cheung has appealed for calm. In a blog post addressed to the protesters, he wrote: "It is imperative to restore social order and tranquillity as soon as possible, to stabilise the business environment and bring Hong Kong back on track. "Hong Kong is my home - there is no difference between you and me."

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Until recently, Democratic leaders have largely been allowed to get away with framing the discussion of abortion around vague concepts like “a woman’s right to choose.” Thanks to New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo, Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam, and other politicians who have endorsed abortion on demand through birth and even infanticide — as well as the sagacity of President Trump, who takes every opportunity to call them out — a whole new audience of Americans is realizing what those platitudes really mean. The first round of the Democratic presidential debates was a true competition among ideologues. When former Texas congressman Beto O’Rourke tried to establish his pro-abortion bona fides early, volunteering, "Health care also has to mean that every woman can make her own decisions about her own body," Julián Castro attempted to outdo him by endorsing abortions for biological men. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., declined to answer whether she supported any limits on abortion. FOX NEWS POLL: MAJORITY WANT ROE V. WADE TO ENDURE The second night was comparably more subdued. Former Vice President Joe Biden was not asked to defend his newfound support for forcing taxpayers to pay for abortions. A new poll released by Susan B. Anthony List shows that a majority of voters — including 55 percent of Independents — are less likely to vote for him because of it. Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand, D-N.Y., wasn’t challenged on her recent assertion that pro-life Americans, including some rank-and-file Democrats, are akin to racists. Nor did Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., or other candidates take the opportunity to attack Biden for his flip-flop on the Hyde amendment. That’s because taxpayer-funded abortion is a losing issue for them, too. If these candidates were running for governor of New York or California (or a different planet), they might all be equally viable — but they’re running to be president of the United States, where even many of their Democrat constituents just aren’t that radical. The reality is that Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to late-term abortion; fewer than one in five think abortion should be allowed through birth. Debating each other is a luxury, at least when considering that one of them will eventually face President Trump. Think of the president as a no-nonsense referee who calls foul on all the Democrats' obfuscation. When he ran against Hillary Clinton, viewers heard a blunt description of late-term abortion for the first time ever in a nationally televised debate. Post-New York and post-Northam, he continues to go on offense to expose his opponents' extremism. The reality is that Americans are overwhelmingly opposed to late-term abortion; fewer than one in five think abortion should be allowed through birth. O’Rourke, Warren, and Pete Buttigieg have refused to name any limits on abortion they would support. Sen. Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., who had relatively little to say in the debate, has dodged the question entirely. The less-familiar candidates are no less extreme. Colorado Sen. Michael Bennet voted against compassionate legislation to stop late-term abortions when unborn children can feel pain, Marianne Williamson has vowed to "vigorously resist any effort to restrict, limit, or diminish" abortion at any time for any reason, and Andrew Yang — who wasn’t asked to speak — holds the incorrect and sexist belief that "if men became pregnant instead of women there would be absolutely no restriction" of abortion. The same SBA List poll found that a majority (55 percent) of voters oppose using federal tax dollars to pay for abortions under Medicaid (40 percent strongly oppose). Biden was the last throwback to the Clinton-era refrain of "safe, legal and rare." Now every leading candidate is on the record in favor of doing away with the Hyde Amendment, longstanding policy that prevents taxpayer funding of abortion and saves 60,000 lives each year. Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., promised, "Medicare for All guarantees every woman in this country the right to have an abortion." Washington Gov. Jay Inslee boasted of forcing all insurers in his state to cover abortion on demand, saying “It should not be an option in the United States of America for any insurance company” to opt out. Seventy-seven percent of Americans want Congress to ensure that babies born alive in failed abortions receive the same medical care as any other baby, but every sitting U.S. senator running for president — Gillibrand, Harris, Klobuchar, Sanders, Warren and Cory Booker, D-N.J. — voted to block born-alive legislation earlier this year. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Rep. Tulsi Gabbard, D-Hawaii, is a dark horse candidate. Some conservatives like her foreign policy positions, but that doesn’t make her a moderate when it comes to abortion. Last year she voted against protections for abortion survivors. This is the modern Democratic Party. On the nation’s most extreme, unpopular abortion policies, there is no daylight between them. That clarity is a gift to Americans going into the most consequential election yet. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE BY MARJORIE DANNENFELSER

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PARIS (Reuters) - France expects its public sector deficit to reach 2.1% of economic output next year, up from the 2.0% forecast prior to tax cuts promised in response to the “yellow vest” protest movement, a government budget projection showed on Sunday. President Emmanuel Macron announced plans at the end of April to reduce income tax by 5 billion euros ($5.7 billion) as part of measures to defuse months of protests over issues such as fuel levies, weak purchasing power and perceptions that Macron’s administration was arrogant. Budget Minister Gerard Darmanin said last week the government was still aiming for a deficit of about 2% next year and had identified savings to offset the upcoming tax cuts. But France’s public audit office has said the government is in danger of missing its fiscal targets unless it makes spending cuts. Macron’s pledge to reduce the income tax burden by 5 billion euros came on top of a 10 billion-euro package of social measures unveiled in December at the height of the “yellow vest” unrest. The updated public finance forecasts, posted on a government website, also slightly increased the deficit projections for 2021, to 1.7% from 1.6%, and for 2022, to 1.3% from 1.2.%. The government maintained its previous forecast of 3.1% for the 2019 deficit, a temporary spike linked to a change in corporate taxation.

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The candidates in the 2020 Democratic presidential primary put aside their squabbles on Sunday - sort of - to focus on a common enemy: President Trump. From former Vice President Joe Biden to former Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Julian Castro, the Democratic hopefuls derided Trump’s third meeting with North Korean strongman Kim Jong Un – accusing the president of everything from “coddling” dictators to posing for a photo opportunity. “President Trump’s coddling of dictators at the expense of American national security and interests is one of the most dangerous ways that he’s diminishing us on the world stage and subverting our values as a nation,” Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said. TRUMP HEADS TO DMZ, DANGLING POSSIBILITY OF MEETING KIM AND CROSSING INTO NORTH KOREA Bates added that Trump’s “conduct reinforces that we urgently need a president who can restore our standing in the world, heal relationships with key allies Trump has alienated and delivered real change for the American people.” Trump and Kim met in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea and briefly stepped into the north – making him the first sitting U.S. leader to do so. After asking if Kim wanted him to cross, Trump took 10 steps into the North with Kim at his side, then escorted Kim back to the South for talks at Freedom House, where they agreed to revive the stalled negotiations. The spectacle marked the latest milestone in two years of roller-coaster diplomacy between the two nations. Personal taunts of "Little Rocket Man" (by Trump) and "mentally deranged U.S. dotard" (by Kim) and threats to destroy one other have given way to on-again, off-again talks, professions of love and flowery letters. Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., tweeted Sunday that Trump “shouldn’t be squandering American influence on photo ops and exchanging love letters with a ruthless dictator. Instead, we should be dealing with North Korea through principled diplomacy that promotes US security, defends our allies, and upholds human rights.” WHITE HOUSE PRESS SECRETARY STEPHANIE GRISHAM ROUGHED UP BY NORTH KOREAN SECURITY GUARDS Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., who is locked in a close battle for second in the polls with Warren, reiterated his Senate colleague’s “photo ops” comment and added that Trump “weakened the State Department.” “The concern here is his incredible inconsistencies. I have no problem with him sitting down with Kim Jong Un in North Korea or any place else. But I don’t want it simply to be a photo opportunity, the whole world’s media was attracted there,” Sanders said during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week.” Sanders added: “What’s going to happen tomorrow and the next day? He has weakened the State Department. If we’re going to bring peace to this world, we need a strong State Department, we need to move forward diplomatically, not just do photo opportunities.” Another Democratic senator running for president, Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota, was skeptical that any substantive agreements would come to fruition from Trump’s talks with Kim. “We want to see a denuclearization of the Korean peninsula, a reduction in these missiles but it’s not as easy as just going and, you know, bringing a hot dish over the fence to the dictator next door,” Klobuchar said on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “This is a ruthless dictator and when you go forward, you have to have a clear focus and a clear mission and clear goals.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Castro, who has seen a boost in his profile since Wednesday night’s debate, also lambasted Trump for “raising the profile of a dictator like Kim Jong Un” without any substantive gains being made. "It's worrisome that this president erratically sets up a meeting without the staff work being done,” Castro said during an appearance on ABC’s “This Week.” “It seems like it's all for show; it's not substantive.” The former Secretary for Housing and Urban Development added: "I am all for speaking with our adversaries, what's happened here is this president has raised the profile of a dictator like Kim Jong Un and now three times visited with him unsuccessfully because he’s doing it backward.” Kim is suspected of having ordered the killing of his half-brother through a plot using a nerve agent at a Malaysian airport in 2017. Meanwhile, the United Nations said in May that about 10 million people in North Korea are suffering from "severe food shortages" after the North had one of the worst harvests in a decade. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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Agreement to cut 99% of tariffs is first with developing country in Asia and swiftly follows deal with South American bloc The European Union has signed a landmark free trade deal with Vietnam, the first of its kind with a developing country in Asia, paving the way for tariff cuts on almost all goods. The EU has described the deal as “the most ambitious free trade deal ever concluded with a developing country”. The agreement was signed in Hanoi, three-and-a-half years after trade negotiations ended in December 2015. Is free trade always the answer? Read more The free trade agreement will eventually eliminate 99% of tariffs, with some items cut over a 10-year period and other goods, notably agricultural products, limited by quotas. It is also expected to open up the public procurement and services markets, such as for the postal, banking and maritime sectors. The deal still needs the approval of the European parliament, which is by no means a certainty given some lawmakers’ concerns over Vietnam’s human rights record. Vietnam has one of the region’s fastest-growing economies, backed by robust exports and foreign investment, It has already signed about a dozen free trade pacts, including an 11-country deal to slash tariffs across much of the Asia-Pacific region, known as the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific. The EU is Vietnam’s second-largest export market after the US, with main exports including garment and footwear products. In 2018, it exported $42.5bn worth of goods and services to the EU, with $13.8bn worth of goods coming the other way, official data shows. On Friday, the EU and South American trade bloc Mercosur agreed a free-trade treaty following two decades of talks. In Asia, the EU now has deals with South Korea, Japan and Singapore, and has embarked on talks with Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines and Thailand. The Singapore deal is due to come into force this year.

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An outspoken supporter of a second Brexit referendum who has criticised Boris Johnson for his “borderline racist” comments is emerging as the frontrunner to replace Jean-Claude Juncker as European commission president. Frans Timmermans, a self-confessed anglophile who is fluent in seven languages, appears to be in pole position to head the commission from 1 November as leaders meet on Sunday evening in Brussels. His candidacy was given a boost over the weekend by the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, who said Timmermans, the Socialists and Democrats nominee for the post, or the German centre-right MEP Manfred Weber would be “part of the solution”. The French president, Emmanuel Macron, has opposed Weber’s claim to the role as group leader of the European People’s party (EPP), the largest group in the European parliament. It has also been widely reported that Merkel agreed at the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan that despite her support for Weber, he would not get the top job but would be given a senior role elsewhere, potentially as president of the European parliament. Facebook Twitter Pinterest Frans Timmermans at an SPD meeting in Germany last month. Photograph: Ronald Wittek/EPA Timmermans route to the commission is far from certain, however, given the opposition he will face from the Polish and Hungarian governments, who have been on the end of his stern criticism of their respective records in protecting the independence of their judiciary. A former Dutch foreign minister who is currently one of Juncker’s deputies with responsibility for rule of law issues, Timmermans, 58, is a longstanding critic of Johnson, the Tory leadership frontrunner. He criticised him after the EU referendum for equating the actions of the EU to Adolf Hitler’s attempts to unify Europe, and describing Barack Obama as “the part-Kenyan president” who harboured an “ancestral dislike of the British empire”. “Would it not have been enough to say that you disagree with the American president’s point of view?” Timmermans wrote in a blog the day after the referendum. “Why discredit not just his motives, but even his persona, with borderline racist remarks?” Timmermans went on: “To accuse people who believe in [the EU] of trying to finish where Hitler left off is, to say the least, a bit rich. How did hatred become an integral part of all this? Why is it necessary?” Since the referendum, Timmermans has repeatedly suggested that the British public might wish to “rethink” the decision to leave the EU while accepting the legitimacy of the 2016 vote. He has recently targeted the Brexit party leader, Nigel Farage, and Johnson for criticism. “Having listened to Mr Farage and his colleagues and seeing the hubris with which he stands here and the self-gratification of his position, I sometimes wonder, has he gone to Sunderland and talked to the workers at the Nissan plant and said to them: ‘It might cost you your job, but I will get my pipe dream of so-called sovereignty’?” Timmermans said in a speech to the European parliament in March. “Has Boris Johnson gone to the doctors and nurses of the NHS and said: ‘I did promise you £350m extra a week; sorry, I can’t deliver on that promise’?” The 28 EU heads of state and government, including Theresa May, are being pushed to make a decision on their preferred candidate for commission president, and for other roles including presidents of the European council and European Central Bank, at a dinner on Sunday night or over a breakfast on Monday morning. Their nomination for commission president will then be put to a vote at the European parliament. Timmermans’s energetic campaigning as the lead candidate, or Spitzenkandidat

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poster="http://v.politico.com/images/1155968404/201906/3224/1155968404_6054045333001_6054042425001-vs.jpg?pubId=1155968404" true White House Stephanie Grisham, new White House press secretary, bruised in tussle with North Korean security Stephanie Grisham, the new White House press secretary, was bruised in a scuffle with North Korean security officers after they tried to block American reporters from accessing a meeting between President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un. After Trump’s historic first steps into North Korea, North Korean officials shoved and tried to block the press from a meeting room where Trump and Kim talked privately, The Associated Press reported. Story Continued Below The scuffle intensified as North Korean guards tried to physically prevent members of the U.S. press pool from entering the room inside the Inter-Korean House of Freedom, on the southern side of Panmunjom in the Demilitarized Zone. The Secret Service also intervened. In what looked like a chaotic scene outside the meeting, Grisham was recorded saying, “Go, go,” as she pushed a North Korean official aside to try to create a path to let reporters into the meeting. She also shouted, “Stop, let go,” while others in the background shouted, “U.S. pool.” Grisham, a top aide to first lady Melania Trump, replaced Sarah Huckabee Sanders on Tuesday, also taking on the role of President Trump’s communications director. She is now the lead public spokeswoman for both the first lady and the president. During her time in the East Wing, Grisham has become a fierce advocate for Melania Trump. She is known for pushing back on negative stories and has chastised journalists for what she has called tabloid-style coverage of the first lady. Grisham has stepped into her new roles during a period of friction between the White House and the press. Sanders, her predecessor, last held a formal televised press briefing more than 100 days ago, and was known for sparring with reporters while strongly defending the president.

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Health care dominated the two Democratic presidential debates last week. Among the most dramatic moments was when moderator Lester Holt asked the candidates to raise their hands if they supported outlawing private insurance and forcing everyone onto a new government-run, "Medicare-for-all" plan. During each debate, only two candidates — Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Mayor Bill de Blasio on night one, and Sens. Bernie Sanders and Kamala Harris on night two — said they would. Hours later, Harris claimed she didn't understand the question and walked back her support. But at least the hand-raisers are honest about wanting to kick people off their health insurance. The other 16 envision a much greater role for government in our nation's health care system as well, one that at the very least includes a government-sponsored "public option" health plan. 'FOX & FRIENDS' TAKES ON 2ND DEBATE: DEMS BACK HEALTH CARE FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, HARRIS CONFRONTS BIDEN That may sound like a moderate alternative to "Medicare-for-all." But it's just a slow-walk to single-payer. And it's one of my three Democratic debate deceptions on health care. Canadians may have a statutory right to health care. But given the limited supply of care available to them, it's a right they have trouble exercising. The first false claim: a public option means private insurance is here to stay. On night one, Maryland Congressman John Delaney challenged "Medicare-for-all's" proponents by pointing out that "100 million Americans say they like their private health insurance." He, and several of his counterparts on the stage, propose creating a public option to compete against private insurers. It would be competition in name only. The public option wouldn't have to cover its costs. So it could set artificially low premiums. Further, most public option proposals envision adopting something like Medicare's reimbursement rates for doctors and hospitals. Those rates are about 40 percent less than what private insurance pays. Providers would respond by raising prices for private insurers even more, to compensate for the losses they'd take on those covered by the public option. Insurers would pass those hikes along to their customers in the form of higher premiums. Consumers are rational. If private premiums skyrocket, they'll jump to the public option and its artificially low premiums. Eventually, the public option would be the only option. One study estimates that after one year with a public option, 119 million people would lose their private coverage. The second false claim: "Medicare-for-all" is affordable. Of course, Warren and Sanders don't want to wait for the death of private insurance — they want to bring it about right away. Warren declared that politicians who declare "Medicare-for-all" infeasible are "really telling you ... they just won't fight for it." They'll have trouble lining up support for something that will cost the federal government more than $32 trillion over ten years. Rank-and-file Americans are unlikely to get behind a bill that would levy a new 4 percent tax on every single household and a new 7.5 percent tax on employers' payrolls, among other levies. Even doubling current income and corporate tax receipts would be insufficient to cover the cost of "Medicare-for-all." The third false claim: Health care is a human right. Warren and Sanders ground their case for "Medicare-for-all" in the language of rights. On night one, Warren declared, "Health care is a basic human right, and I will fight for basic human rights." Sanders said much the same on night two: "Health care, in my view, is a human right and we have got to pass a 'Medicare-for-all,' single-payer system." But declaring something a right does not make it so. Single-payer advocates are really calling for health care to be free at the point of access. Doing so could stoke infinite demand for care. There's simply no way to create an unlimited supply to meet that demand. In fact, Medicare-for-all's proposed pay cuts will drive down the supply of care. Many doctors will quit rather than accept cut-rate pay. Young people, particularly the nation’s best and brightest, will decline to pursue careers in medicine. And hospitals running on already thin profit margins, such as those in rural areas, will close. Long waits for necessary treatment will be the result. Under Canada's single-payer system, patients wait a median of nearly 20 weeks for treatment from a specialist after referral from a general practitioner. Many cutting-edge treatments are simply unavailable because the government refuses to pay for them. Canadians have access to less than half of new medicines brought to market between 2011 and 2018. U.S. patients had access to nearly 90 percent. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Canadians may have a statutory right to health care. But given the limited supply of care available to them, it's a right they have trouble exercising. The same would be true under "Medicare-for-all" in the United States. The next Democratic debate is at the end of July in Detroit. Unfortunately, it's a safe bet that they'll be peddling these deceptions then, too. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE BY SALLY PIPES

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A network of mostly police and military have been accused of ordering body bags and quicklime to dispose of political opponents following the “collapse” of Germany. The Mecklenburg-Vorpommern based far-right group, named “Nordkreuz”, are accused of ordering around 200 body bags along with quicklime, Hannoversche Allgemeine Zeitung reports. According to intelligence information given to the Editor’s Network Germany (RND), the group consists of around 30 individuals, mainly from the police and military, allegedly including an active member of the Special Operations Command of the State Criminal Police Office Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. Nordkreuz is accused of being a so-called “prepper” group who have been preparing for the collapse of German society, known as “Day X”, in which they would take the opportunity to assassinate political opponents, having allegedly created a list of 25,000 or so individuals to be targetted. The people on the alleged assassination list are said to be members of left-wing political parties and even members of conservative parties who have declared themselves to be pro-migration and open borders. Top Merkel Party MP: Strip Right-wing 'Extremists' of Free Speech, Free Assembly https://t.co/BiwYgmf6lX — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) June 22, 2019 The Federal Prosecutor’s Office is said to have been investigating members of the group since 2017, including three members who have been accused of stealing up to 10,000 rounds of sub-machine gun ammunition. The intelligence on the group is said to have come from a shared group on the encrypted messaging app Telegram, an app widely used by radical Islamic extremists for years. Following the murder of pro-open borders politician Walter Lübcke, a member of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s Christian Democratic Union (CDU), by a known neo-Nazi, many German politicians have spoken out about the threats posed from neo-Nazi groups and some have offered varying solutions. Former General-Secretary of the CDU Peter Tauber has advocated stripping the fundamental rights to free speech, free assembly, property, and freedom of the press from alleged right-wing extremists under Article 18 of the German constitution. Article 18 allows the government to restrict basic freedoms to anyone said to be fighting Germany’s “free democratic basic order.” WATCH: Police Video of Suspected Alt-Left Attack on German Populist MP https://t.co/Ov2JAAT6BK — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) January 12, 2019

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CLOSE President Trump meets with Kim Jong Un, becoming the first U.S. president to step onto North Korean soil. (Photo: Getty) A social media ask for a quick handshake turned historic Sunday when President Donald Trump became the first U.S. president to step foot in North Korea during a meeting in the Demilitarized Zone with Kim Jong Un. "Stepping across that line was a great honor," Trump told the North Korean leader, adding that it was a "a great day for the world." Trump had said the duo would merely conduct a brief handshake, but they ultimately met for almost an hour. Afterward, Trump said each leader will provide a team of negotiators for talks aimed at persuading Kim to dismantle a nuclear weapons program that has kept the Korean Peninsula on edge for years. Trump reaches out to Kim on Twitter Trump suggested the meeting in a tweet on Thursday: "After some very important meetings, including my meeting with President Xi of China, I will be leaving Japan for South Korea (with President Moon). While there, if Chairman Kim of North Korea sees this, I would meet him at the Border/DMZ just to shake his hand and say Hello(?)!" Kim agrees to meeting Trump, while still in Japan, said the Koreans had responded "very favorably" to his suggestion. On Sunday, Kim gave Trump props for reaching out. “I believe this is an expression of his willingness to eliminate all the unfortunate past and open a new future," he said. A photo opportunity, and maybe more Cameras clicked and whirred as Trump, during a planned visit to South Korea, made his sidetrip to the DMZ for the handshake seen around the world. Kim asked Trump if he wanted to step into North Korea, and the duo took about 10 steps in the North. They then walked back before retreating to Freedom House for their private chat. They emerged with an agreement to kick-start talks that had seen little movement since their February summit in Vietnam. Live from the DMZ: Donald Trump meets Kim Jong Un Limos, vokda nukes: A sanctions' sleuth traces North Korea's illicit transactions What happens now? Foreign policy analysts said the border meeting won't mean much unless it it leads to progress on a deal to dismantle North Korea's nuclear weapons programs. "What matters is what is agreed to and actually happens," tweeted Richard Haass, president of the Council on Foreign Relations. "It is not the personal but policy that counts." Harry Kazianis, with the D.C.-based Center for the National Interest, sounded a positive note, saying the meeting could "set the tone for ... carving out a path toward lasting peace on the Korean Peninsula." Pope Francis prays for deal Pope Francis praised the meeting in his weekly address at St. Peter's Square, saying he prays that "such a significant gesture will be a further step on the road to peace, not only on that peninsula, but for the good of the entire world." We've been here before The Hanoi summit fell apart after Trump rejected Kim’s calls for sanctions relief in return for dismantling his main nuclear complex, something that U.S. officials see as a partial denuclearization step. Kim has since fired missiles and other weapons into the sea. The duo also met a year ago in Singapore, but no deal emerged. Nukes on the Korean Peninsula North Korea withdrew from the global the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons in 2003. Three years later the rogue state conducted the first of a half-dozen increasingly complex nuclear tests. In July 2017, North Korea conducted what was believed to be a successful test of an ICBM – Intercontinental Ballistic Missile. The price of militarization Pyongyang's military upgrades have come at a price – a series of increasingly stiff economic sanctions that has crippled its economy. Trump has expressed a willingness to remove sanctions and provide economic aid if Kim is willing to end his nuclear program. Contributing: The Associated Press Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2019/06/30/trump-makes-history-north-korea-what-we-know-now/1611165001/

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Image copyright Getty Images Image caption Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt say they are committed to safeguarding the union Boris Johnson has promised to do "anything" in his power to stop the UK breaking up if he becomes prime minister. The Conservative leadership candidate said the next occupant of 10 Downing Street should be "minister for the union" as well as prime minister. Meanwhile his rival, Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt, confirmed he would be willing to leave the EU without a deal. He had previously said preserving the union was more important than Brexit. The SNP said both candidates were ignoring calls from their Scottish colleagues to rule out a no-deal Brexit "or accept that Scotland will choose another path". Writing in the Mail on Sunday, Boris Johnson said he was a "passionate believer" in the union. He said the next prime minister should be "minister for the union" - something he described as a "cost-free but symbolically significant important addition to the office I seek". And he suggested that there should be a unit at Number 10 to "sense-test and stress-test" every policy for the results it would have on the union. "We should actively campaign for a public understanding of the benefits of the union, economic and strategic, for the people and its component nations," Mr Johnson added. "There are still passionate voices - especially in Scotland - that are campaigning night and day to break our union up, to diminish our country. "We cannot just leave the field to them, a refuse to engage in the argument." The former foreign secretary also claimed that delivering a "sensible" Brexit would make it harder for the SNP to argue for independence. His comments came a week after an opinion poll suggested there would be majority support in Scotland for independence if Mr Johnson became prime minister. And earlier this month a YouGov poll a majority of Conservative party members said they would prefer Brexit to go ahead even if it caused Scottish independence. Image caption Jeremy Hunt was interviewed on The Andrew Marr Show On BBC One's The Andrew Marr Show, Mr Hunt admitted that leaving the EU without a deal would be unpopular in Scotland. His cabinet colleague, Scotland Secretary David Mundell, has said that a no-deal Brexit could "threaten the continuance of the United Kingdom". But Mr Hunt said that - if it came to it - he could deliver a successful no deal Brexit and strengthen the union with Scotland. "There are risks," the foreign secretary conceded. "You think about what someone like Nicola Sturgeon would do politically if we had a no deal situation and we would have to get through that, and that is why a no-deal Brexit is not my first choice. " He said it was not question of choosing Brexit or the union. "If you send to Brussels someone who can negotiate a deal that can get through Parliament, then you won't have a no-deal situation, and then you reduce those risks," he added. "But I'm also very clear that we are going to leave the European Union come what may and I will deliver that. If that happens, I will do it in a way that protects the union because it's absolutely vital that we do." The SNP dismissed Mr Johnson's plan for a "minister for the union" as a "meaningless gimmick". MSP Tom Arthur added: "Jeremy Hunt has made clear that he's more than willing to push through a disastrous no-deal Brexit despite knowing the disproportionate damage this will bring to jobs, businesses and households incomes in Scotland. "Both the candidates to become the next Tory leader have publicly ignored calls from their Scottish colleagues to rule out a no-deal or accept that Scotland will choose another path. The 160,000 Conservative party members will begin voting for their new leader next week and Theresa May's successor is expected to be announced on 23 July.

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Cory Booker questions whether Joe Biden is able to speak 'honestly' about race The New Jersey senator said Biden has demonstrated an "inability to talk candidly about the mistakes he made” on issues of race.

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VIENNA (Reuters) - An OPEC and non-OPEC technical committee found on Sunday that oil producers’ compliance with a supply-reduction agreement reached 163% in May, three sources familiar with the matter said. The committee known as the JTC was meeting in Vienna. Oil ministers from the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries gather on Monday in the Austrian capital for policy talks, followed by discussions with non-OPEC oil producers on Tuesday.

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Former California State Assembly speaker and San Francisco mayor Willie Brown has declared, in the wake of the first Democratic Party presidential primary debate, that there is still no candidate who can beat President Donald Trump. Brown made his observations in his most recent column for the San Francisco Chronicle on Saturday, titled, “Bad news for Democrats — none of these candidates can beat Trump.” Brown wrote: The first Democratic debates proved one thing: We still don’t have a candidate who can beat Donald Trump. California Sen. Kamala Harris got all the attention for playing prosecutor in chief, but her case against former Vice President Joe Biden boiled down in some ways to a ringing call for forced school busing. It won’t be too hard for Trump to knock that one out of the park in 2020. … Trump must have enjoyed every moment and every answer, because he now knows he’s looking at a bunch of potential rivals who are still not ready for prime time. Read Brown’s full column here. It was the second time Brown has panned the Democratic primary field. He wrote in February, after President Trump’s widely-praised State of the Union address: “Make no mistake, President Trump’s State of the Union address was the kickoff for his 2020 re-election campaign, and so far I’ve yet to see a Democrat who can beat him. … They all have impressive credentials, winning personalities and positive messages, but none displays the “people personality” that our media-savvy president has mastered.” Brown’s criticism included Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), whom he infamously dated in the 1990s, appointing her to state jobs commanding significant salaries. He wrote in January: Yes, we dated. It was more than 20 years ago. Yes, I may have influenced her career by appointing her to two state commissions when I was Assembly speaker. And I certainly helped with her first race for district attorney in San Francisco. I have also helped the careers of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, Gov. Gavin Newsom, Sen. Dianne Feinstein and a host of other politicians. The title of his column on that occasion: “Sure, I dated Kamala Harris. So what?” Joel B. Pollak is Senior Editor-at-Large at Breitbart News. He is a winner of the 2018 Robert Novak Journalism Alumni Fellowship. He is also the co-author of How Trump Won: The Inside Story of a Revolution, which is available from Regnery. Follow him on Twitter at @joelpollak.

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Pride parades across the country Sunday will celebrate the advances made in LGBTQ rights in the half century since gay patrons of the Stonewall Inn in New York's Greenwich village resisted a raid by police. Still, there's work to be done, according to our Sunday Morning guest commentator, Tim Cook, the Chief Executive Officer of Apple. This weekend we mark the 50th anniversary of the riots at Stonewall. It's an important reminder that only dedicated people, standing up when it is difficult, can carry us forward. And that without courage, it is chillingly easy to fall back into the shadows. When the patrons of the Stonewall Inn showed up that June night-people of all races, gay and transgender, young and old-they had no idea what history had in store for them. It would have seemed foolish to dream it. When the police raid began, it was not the knock of opportunity or the call of destiny. It was just another instance of the world telling them that they ought to feel worthless for being different. But the group gathered there felt something strengthen in them. A conviction that they deserved something better than oblivion. And if it wasn't going to be given, then they were going to have to build it themselves. I was eight years old and a thousand miles away when Stonewall happened. There were no news alerts, no way for photos to go viral, no mechanism for a kid on the Gulf Coast to hear these unlikely heroes tell their stories. What I would not know, for a long time, was what I owed to a group of people I never knew in a place I'd never been. Yet I will never stop being grateful for what they had the courage to build. Today, it's on all of us to carry their work forward. In 2019, discrimination still looms in employment, in housing, and in public places like restaurants and stores. The transgender community, in particular, is singled out for discrimination and acts of violence. And LGBTQ young people still face an epidemic of harassment in bullying that isn't merely cruel, it robs them of life's opportunities. Often this comes at the hands of the people they should be able to trust - their teachers, their faith leaders, even their parents. Seeking only love and acceptance these young people are kicked out of their homes and houses of worship. That's no small reason why roughly 40% of homeless youth are LGBTQ. We all have a responsibility to set a positive example and that includes companies like ours. We make sure our employees enjoy equal benefits and healthcare protections, and that we create an inclusive environment where everyone can bring their unique experiences to work. With the spread of marriage equality to all 50 states, and a seismic shift in public opinion in favor of equality for all, the march that began at Stonewall continues with the wind at our back. This Anniversary, and Pride Month in general, are a time for celebration and community. But we miss an important opportunity if we don't dedicate this moment to the progress yet to be made. I am so proud to be a part of this courageous community, and, 50 years after that historic night, it's the privilege of a lifetime to help carry on its unfinished work.

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KAKUMA, Kenya - Under the wrath of the midday sunshine outside the strewn hut she now calls home, Nancy cradles her baby son and speaks with a kind of vehement passion tinged by deep pain. The small boy Gulio, now one, was born out of rape. But rather than hiding in the shadows of the social stigma that has been forced upon her, 39-year-old Nancy - who hails from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) capital Kinshasa - is refusing to be shamed into silence. “We are in a hopeless situation, but there is no time to worry about how to cope, my child has a lot of needs,” Nancy told Fox News. “His needs are a lot.” Nancy’s nightmare unraveled on March 15, 2017, when three masked assailants burst into her home. Weeks earlier, her sister had been brutally beaten and left for dead and gripped by fear, Nancy knew this time the attackers had come for her. Her wailing three-year-old son Stephane and her oldest boy, then 14, were forced to watch helplessly as their mother was bashed black and blue. And then, she was brutally raped. “And then I was blamed and banished by my own family and my former husband’s family,” Nancy recalled, her eyes glossed by tears. “I had no one. And for weeks all I could do was look for son.” Nancy’s teen boy, profoundly traumatized by the onslaught and the attached cultural stigma leveled on rape victims, had run away immediately after his mom’s attack and was nowhere to be found. But with her own and young Stephane’s safety at-risk, and no one to turn to, she made the harrowing decision to flee. MALE RAPE EMERGING AS ONE OF THE MOST UNDER-REPORTED WEAPONS OF WAR The agonizing expedition lasted more than six weeks and entailed straddling boats, hitchhiking and long walks from the DRC through Tanzania to the Kenyan capital of Nairobi - before finally making it some 450 miles north-west to the sprawling Kakuma Refugee Camp. But around midway through the treachery, Nancy started throwing up in abnormal fits and starts. With Stephane also sick and needing medication, she eventually found a clinic and while there took a pregnancy test. “It came back positive, I was pregnant from the rape,” Nancy said. “I was devastated. I felt confused, embarrassed.” Yet, she noted, there was no question of whether she would keep and raise the baby with as much love as other children. “I believe in the right to life, the baby was inside me,” Nancy advocated. “My baby had a right to live.” Guilo was born in December 2017. Nonetheless, Nancy’s scarring personal plight is far from an isolated case. Sexual violence in the DRC has become so pandemic over the last two decades that the United Nations has referred to it as the “rape capital of the world.” Last year, Congolese doctor Denis Mukwege was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize having devoted his life to physically mending the broken bodies of girls and women violated in the protracted unrest - having performed surgery in and provided holistic and psychological support for more than 40,000 survivors over the past twenty years. NIGERIA'S CHRISTIAN COMMUNITY SLOWLY BEING ERASED AS MILITANTS STEP UP VICIOUS KILLINGS, KIDNAPPINGS While it is impossible to obtain accurate statistics as so many such incidences go unreported, a 2011 study published in the American Journal of Public Health estimated that at least 48 women are raped every single hour in the DRC. Such a “weapon of war” has continued to reign with impunity, designed to decimate a woman’s identity and honor and tear through the framework of families and communities. Along with the regrettable veil of humiliation cast over mothers, the children conceived from rape also face extreme challenges and social persecution, ostracized by communities and often viewed as enemies. But Nancy, who once held a respected office job, remains determined to provide her young boys with as much love and guidance as possible, despite having nothing to her name, being unable to work given that she is raising two young children, and receiving little aid and moral support outside those with the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC). “Someday I hope I can set up a business here in the camp,” she said. “Maybe selling food and household items to other refugees.” Yet in a small silver lining, Nancy - as a result of the ICRC in partnership with the local Kenyan Red Cross and their efforts to restore family links - was able to reconnect by phone with her oldest missing son in the DRC and learn he was safe. “God will take care,” she whispered. While Nancy knows she will likely never seek justice for what was done to her, and her family may never stop blaming and eschewing her for what endured, she remains committed to speaking out for those being victimized. “Even here at the camp, if I see a kid being beaten by another kid I will try to have them talk it out,” she underscored. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP And along the dusty tracks cleaved between the debilitated shacks more than 180,000 mostly African refugees - who have been implicated in an ever-developing web of wars and mass human rights abuses - call home, a weather-worn sign glistens. “An eye for an eye will only make the world blind,” the scratched sign reads. “Stop the revenge.”

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The following is a transcript of the interview with National Economic Council Director Larry Kudlow that aired Sunday, June 30, 2019, on "Face the Nation." MARGARET BRENNAN: We turn now to Larry Kudlow, the National Economic Council director, who joins us this morning from Connecticut. Larry, good to have you here. The president said he's not increasing tariffs on China and he's allowing American companies to do business with Huawei. That essentially throws that tech firm a lifeline. What did the U.S. get for these concessions? LARRY KUDLOW: Well, let's- first of all, the talks are going to restart. I think that's a very big deal right there. No timeline, Margaret, but they are going to restart. Look, regarding the Huawei story, let me just try to clarify that, there will be sales from American companies, but- but only in the sense of the general merchandise, things that are available in other places around the world. Anything to do with national security concerns will not receive a new license from the Commerce Department. I think that's very important. I think people have to understand that stuff that's generally available will be- will be probably getting a temporary license from the Commerce Department. We'll see how far that goes. Second point is, we are hoping and expecting that China will engage in large scale purchases of American farm products and farm services as the talks continue. The talks may not be ending, the talks may not even be solved, but the president believes that China will begin to purchase American agriculture and that's going to be a big boost to our farmers and that would be a good faith show that these are serious talks and negotiations. MARGARET BRENNAN: But on those purchases that you say might happen, in the meantime, the existing tariffs still stay in place. So that means the retaliatory tariffs are too. And even with this announcement of China potentially buying more product, according to the USDA that market for soybean farmers won't recover until 2026 or 2027. They're losing markets the longer this goes on. So how much damage can America stomach? KUDLOW: Well look, that may be, I don't want to forecast that. We'll see if China steps in to fill the void. Our farmers have been terrific, they're patriots, they support the president's dealings with China. Pres- strongest president we've ever had in US-China relations. China's problems, you know, IP theft, forced transfers of technology, problems with getting into cloud services, problems with tariffs, problems with non-tariff barriers, all these things are going to have to be addressed. And that's the only way it'll help the American economy. It's a very unbalanced trading relationship, Margaret, as you may know. That has to be fixed. It's not going to be 50-50. They have many more remedies and correctives to make, and that's what President Trump said in his news conference and elsewhere in this recent trip to Japan. Now having said that, with respect to the farmers, we are doing the best we can. We are providing short-term assistance to keep them going and try to fill the void until we can get better international markets. The farmers themselves, the farm groups, they've been great patriots and we- we celebrate their support to make America's overall economy very, very strong. And let's see if the Chinese make good on this promise, that'll have a bearing. You know, the president said on tariffs, let me make this point, he said, "no additional tariffs for now." So he's going good faith to see how these talks go, to see if China delivers on an early agriculture promise, let's call it an early harvest, but that may be up for grabs. We will see. No one can predict with certainty. MARGARET BRENNAN: But- but last time, my understanding is, the talks were going well and then China backed off of a perceived promise to change its laws. So, is there any indication from China that they will make the kind of structural change to their own laws to make good on some of the changes you want to see happen on IP, et cetera? KUDLOW: You're right about the problem, and they did pull back from some agreements we thought we had, and by the by, that also includes all manner of enforcement to whatever conditions are made. So you're quite right. Can I sit here and tell you that's all going to work out? No, we don't know that. The teams are going to start negotiating in earnest, Ambassador Lighthizer, Secretary Mnuchin and others, but we don't know. MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay. KUDLOW: This is just a new first step. I always think it's better to talk than not to talk. MARGARET BRENNAN: Sure. KUDLOW: We have no assurances and again, the president himself said several times, we want quality talks, there is no timeline here. The issue is quality, not speed. MARGARET BRENNAN: Well-- KUDLOW: So we will see if China delivers on some of these significant reforms. MARGARET BRENNAN: Marco Rubio has been raising concerns though about what the president just agreed to do with Huawei, that tech firm. He said, "If President Trump has bargained away recent restrictions on Huawei, then the U.S. Congress will put them back in via legislation." Isn't this undercutting the president's negotiation and why would the U.S. allow American companies to do business with a firm that is working on surveillance and a national security threat? KUDLOW: Well, look, again, I- I- I think Senator Rubio's concerns about all manner of national security are correct. They're proper concerns and I hope that when President Trump comes back, that he and others of us will be able to persuade Senator Rubio, that there will be no national security violations, that any additional licensing from the Commerce Department to American companies will be for what we call general merchandise, not national security sensitive- general merchandise meaning, you know, various chips and software and other services that are available all around the world, not specific to the U.S. But the president is not backing off on the national security concerns. We understand the huge risks regarding Huawei. And let me say, the president, several times, "We will fully address Huawei, not until the end of the trade talks." In other words-- MARGARET BRENNAN: Right. KUDLOW: --that will come last and that will deal, you know, with much larger issues concerning the long term future with Huawei. So that's- what- what's happening now is simply a- a loosening up for general merchandise, maybe some additional licenses from commerce. It is not the last word. The last word is not going to come till the very end of the talks. This is a complicated matter. So I hope we'll be able to persuade Senator Rubio and others that- that- that we are as cautious and concerned as they are. MARGARET BRENNAN: All right. Larry Kudlow, thank you so much. We'll be back in one minute with a lot more FACE THE NATION. Don't go away.

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A Florida deputy was dragged twice by a suspect during a routine traffic stop, police video shows. The Seminole County Sheriff's deputy had pulled over the suspect, Apopka resident Rocky Rudolph Jr., 38, on County Road 46-A near Interstate 4 over his tinted windows Saturday morning, Sheriff Dennis Lemma told reporters during a press conference. The two were engaging in a routine traffic stop, having a "normal" conversation, Lemma said. It quickly escalated, however, after the deputy smelled marijuana and asked Rudolph to turn the car off. That's when he allegedly became "combative" -- at one point "yelling and screaming" -- before he put the car in drive with the deputy attached to the window, Lemma said. After the deputy was dragged at least 20 feet, he then pulled his firearm out and ordered Rudolph to raise his hands and turn the car off, Lemma said. Rudolph then drove forward again, and the deputy fired his gun into the car, hitting Rudolph in the leg, Lemma said. The deputy was thrown from the vehicle just before it drove onto the highway. The incident was captured both on the deputy's body camera and his vehicle's dashboard camera. WANTED SUSPECT: Identified as ROCKY M RUDOLPH JR of Apopka. Please Call 911 if you know is whereabouts or have information. pic.twitter.com/p6GOK3pH7z — Seminole County S.O. (@SeminoleSO) June 29, 2019 Rudolph fled on foot after losing control of the car, Lemma said. Investigators spent about eight hours looking for him before they located him in a car in the Longwood community, Lemma said. He was then taken to the hospital and treated for the wound on his leg. The officer was treated at a local hospital and released. Rudolph has been charged with attempted murder of a law enforcement officer, according to the sheriff's office. Sheriff Lemma: This was a very dangerous situation. Our deputy could have been killed. Was dragged towards I-4. Suspect in custody facing charges of attempted murder of LEO. pic.twitter.com/hy4vscuBmj — Seminole County S.O. (@SeminoleSO) June 29, 2019 Rudolph has a history of fleeing from law enforcement and has been charged with 32 felonies in the past several years, ABC Orlando affiliate WFTV reported. ABC News' Ahmad Hemmingway contributed to this report.

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President’s son retweeted and then deleted post claiming Harris is not ‘American black’ but comes from ‘Jamaican Slave Owners’ Donald Trump Jr is “like a coward” for tweeting and deleting a racist attack on Kamala Harris, Democratic presidential candidate Julián Castro said on Sunday. Democrats must just bring down Trump – for the sake of the world | Robert Reich Read more Racist criticism of the California senator proliferated online after Thursday’s second debate, in which she shone in opposition to former vice-president Joe Biden, particularly in grilling him over his past opposition to bussing as a way to racially integrate schools. Harris announced a fundraising surge after the debate, with $2m coming in over 24 hours. The RealClearPolitics.com national polling average puts her fourth in the Democratic field, behind Biden, Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren. During the debate on Thursday, Donald Trump’s oldest son reposted a message from Ali Alexander, an alt-right personality, which said: “Kamala Harris is implying she is descended from American Black Slaves. She’s not. She comes from Jamaican Slave Owners. That’s fine. She’s not an American Black. Period.” “Is this true?” Trump Jr asked. “Wow.” Harris’s father is Jamaican and her mother was from India. Castro, the former mayor of San Antonio and US housing secretary who would be the first Hispanic president, performed strongly in the first debate on Wednesday. On Sunday he appeared on CNN’s State of the Union. “It’s disgusting,” he said of Trump Jr’s tweet. “It has no place in our politics. This is the game that these folks play. They put something out there. You notice what he did. He tweeted it out and then he deleted it like a coward, so he can say, ‘Oh, that was a mistake.’ “But he knows what he’s doing. He’s giving voice to these racist utterances about Senator Harris. We need to dispel them immediately and condemn them and then not give them any more life, because they’re disgusting.” Castro was not alone in defending the senator and criticising Trump Jr. Most of the Democratic candidates did so. The Vermont senator Bernie Sanders, for example, tweeted: “Donald Trump Jr is a racist too. Shocker.” Pete Buttigieg, the mayor of South Bend, Indiana, wrote: “Kamala Harris has been powerfully voicing her Black American experience. Her first-generation story embodies the American dream. It’s long past time to end these racist, birther-style attacks.” That was a reference to “birther” consp

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Image copyright AFP Image caption Turkey's support for Libya follows air strikes on Tajoura as part of Gen Haftar's Tripoli offensive Turkey says it will "retaliate in the most effective and strong way" to any threats from the Libyan warlord's Khalifa Haftar's army. The warning came after Gen Haftar's Libyan National Army said it would strike Turkish vessels in Libyan waters and view Turkish businesses as targets. The LNA controls most of the east and south of Libya and started an offensive against the internationally recognised government in April. Turkey supports the Libyan government. Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has said that his country supplies weapons and drones to Tripoli's Government of National Accord (GNA), led by Prime Minster Fayez al-Sarraj. He said Turkish backing helped "rebalance" the fight against Gen Haftar, who has backing from UAE and Egypt. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Libya crisis: The fight for Tripoli explained from the frontline Turkish Defence Minister Huluski Akar warned that LNA forces would pay a "very heavy price" for any attacks on Turkish interests. On Thursday, the GNA reclaimed the strategic town of Gharyan, a main supply base for Gen Haftar's forces in their offensive on Tripoli. Libya has been torn by violence and division since long-time ruler Muammar Gaddafi was deposed and killed in 2011.

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Shadow minister says the comments leaked to the media have ‘disturbing implications’ Labour calls for inquiry into civil service claim that Corbyn is 'too frail' Labour has written to the head of the civil service to request an independent investigation into anonymous warnings leaked to a newspaper that claimed Jeremy Corbyn could be too frail to function as prime minister. Jon Trickett, Labour’s shadow minister for the Cabinet Office, told the cabinet secretary, Mark Sedwill, that the comments amounted to a “totally unwarranted and indeed unconstitutional political intervention, with disturbing implications for our democratic system”. Corbyn and his party have rejected the claims made in the Times on Saturday, which said that, at a recent event, senior civil servants discussed their worries about what might happen if the Labour leader became prime minister. The report cited anonymous senior civil servants who

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Image copyright Reuters Image caption "Spitzenkandidaten", L-R: Margrethe Vestager (liberal, Danish); Frans Timmermans (centre-left, Dutch); Manfred Weber (centre-right, German) EU leaders will gather in Brussels shortly for talks to decide who should get the EU's top jobs, including a new Commission president. Reports say the current favourite to head it is Dutch centre-left politician Frans Timmermans. He is a Commission first vice-president. However, politicians in Poland, Hungary and Romania dislike the way he has enforced the EU rule of law policy. The centre-right bloc wants Germany's Manfred Weber to get the top job. He is the European People's Party (EPP) candidate under the "Spitzenkandidat" (lead candidate) procedure, which the European Parliament supports as a democratic way to reflect the European election outcome. Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Who's in the running for Juncker's post and other EU top jobs? But while the EPP is still the biggest bloc, it does not have a majority, and French President Emmanuel Macron is among those opposing the "Spitzenkandidat" system. The May EU elections produced a more fragmented parliament. The EU treaties say the government leaders - the European Council - have to nominate a Commission president, but they do not have to choose a "Spitzenkandidat". The Commission drafts EU laws, oversees national budgets, enforces EU treaties and negotiates international trade deals. Brussels diplomats and a European Parliament adviser told Reuters news agency that Mr Timmermans was most likely to become president, succeeding Jean-Claude Juncker. German media quoted Chancellor Angela Merkel as saying the choice was between "the two Spitzenkandidaten", implying Mr Timmermans and Mr Weber. The rare Sunday summit was called because EU leaders failed on 20 June to agree on candidates for the Commission president's job and other top posts: European Council president (to replace Donald Tusk); high representative for foreign policy (to replace Federica Mogherini); European Parliament president and European Central Bank president. Reuters says the emerging compromise is to give Mr Weber the post of parliament president, and make Mr Timmermans - who has strong French and Spanish support - Commission president. The pressure is on to decide the appointments, because the new parliament meets on 2 July, and at their 15-18 July session, MEPs are to vote on the leaders' nominee for Commission president. The May elections saw big gains for the liberals - including Mr Macron's alliance - and Greens, at the expense of the long-established centre-right and centre-left blocs. Nationalists also made gains.

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Twenty candidates sparred over the economy, immigration, health care and racism during the two-night Democratic debate last week. Candidates vied to highlight their differences in approaches and establish why they are uniquely positioned to beat President Trump. On the first night, Julian Castro tried to take down Beto O’Rourke. The second night was livelier with Kamala Harris targeting former Vice President Joe Biden, and Marianne Williamson trying to shoot down everyone’s plans with the power of love. Through the clamor of candidates talking over one another, Kamala Harris unified the crowd when she said, “America does not want to witness a food fight. They want to know how we’re going to put food on their table.” But there’s one issue they didn’t fight over — abortion. It was barely mentioned either night. ROBERT HUTCHINSON: FIVE WAYS 2020 DEMOCRATS ARE AT ODDS WITH AMERICA And this is for one simple reason: there’s not a shadow of difference between the candidates’ positions. As evidenced by Planned Parenthood’s Action Fund Forum earlier this month, the Democratic candidates are in lockstep. Planned Parenthood’s party in South Carolina saw 20 Democratic presidential candidates show up. One after the other they lined up to kiss Planned Parenthood’s ring and promise to do its bidding. After all, the abortion provider will lavish millions upon millions of dollars in campaign contributions on the eventual nominee. This dog and pony show reveals just how powerful Planned Parenthood has become. With unparalleled influence, it controls the left’s abortion narrative and agenda. For example, every one of the 20 Democratic presidential candidates who took the stage at Planned Parenthood’s Action Fund Forum swore allegiance to protecting a woman’s “right” to terminate her baby’s life in the womb. Overall, the candidates fell in line behind three main goals: First, repeal the Hyde Amendment, which prohibits federal money being used to pay for abortions. Dumping the Hyde Amendment will make sure Planned Parenthood stays fully funded, sending hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars into its coffers. New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio was blunt: “Can we just be clear? If you’re a Democrat, you’re against the Hyde amendment. Period. Period.” Abortion will be a — maybe THE — defining issue of the 2020 presidential election. Joe Biden recently came under fire for flip-flopping on his stance on the Hyde Amendment, but on stage before Planned Parenthood and the left he made plain that he no longer supports it. He knows that if he becomes the nominee he’ll never have their full support — or their money — without aligning with their dictates. That’s why he now promises to champion “sexual and reproductive health care” by eliminating the Hyde Amendment and reversing all the changes put into place by the Trump administration. Which brings us to goal number two: eliminate the Trump administration’s so-called Title X gag rule. Simply put, this “gag rule” forbids federal funding for programs where abortion is a method of planning, that forbids doctors and family planning professionals from providing patients with pro-adoption materials, and protects the religious liberties of doctors, nurses and other professionals who disagree with abortion on moral grounds. It also requires physical and financial separation between where family planning advice is dispensed and where abortions are performed. Former Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper told the crowd he would personally oversee a “magnificent expansion” of Title X funding for family planning, meaning funding abortions nationwide. Third, Democrats would move to codify Roe v. Wade. Some candidates promised to use the federal government’s power to keep states from protecting life. Mayor Pete Buttigieg would outright block states from implementing their own restrictions on abortion. California Sen. Kamala Harris promised to create a federal system of “preclearance” that would mandate that any new state-level abortion restrictions be subject to federal review by the Department of Justice before being allowed to take effect. Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren declared, “It’s time to go on offense with Roe v. Wade.” Her cavalier comments reflect the months-long push by Democrats in states like New York, Vermont, Massachusetts, Virginia, New Mexico, Rhode Island and Washington to pass legislation expanding abortion access, some even allowing abortion up to birth! Several have been successful, but thank God some haven’t. All of this goes to show the days of Democratic support for policies that make abortion “safe, legal and rare” are long gone. The new mantra for Planned Parenthood and abortion-supporting Democrats is the outrageous hashtag #ShoutYourAbortion. The health of the unborn is being ignored in favor of what they call “sexual and reproductive health.” Planned Parenthood claims that “because of systemic inequities, many patients who rely on Title X for their health care needs are people of color, LGBTQ people, and people in rural areas — all of whom already face significant barriers to accessing health care.” This claim tries to turn the argument into one about race, sexual orientation, income equality and geography but distracts from the issue at hand — the life of an unborn human baby. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The left has shown the power of coalescing around a common goal. Pro-life Americans must follow that example and rally around our shared conviction that the rights of the unborn are universal human rights. More than ever we must unify to make social and political change for the sake of those who cannot yet speak for themselves. Abortion will be a — maybe THE — defining issue of the 2020 presidential election. For every American who values life, the time is now to stand together and oppose Planned Parenthood and any political candidate who pays fealty to its anti-life agenda. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM JASON YATES

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Pope Francis on Sunday praised President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un hours after the two leaders’ impromptu tête-à-tête at the Demilitarized Zone that separates the two Koreas. Addressing thousands at St. Peter’s Square in Italy’s Vatican City, Francis said he “salute[d]” Trump and Kim for taking the step to meet. The Catholic leader said he hoped the “significant gesture” would be a stepping stone to the resolution of conflicts in the Korean peninsula and worldwide. “In the last few hours we saw in Korea a good example of the ‘culture of encounter,’” the pope said, referring to one of his central teachings about the need to reach across physical and political boundaries to build friendships with others. “I salute the protagonists, with a prayer that such a significant gesture will be a further step on the road to peace, not only on that peninsula, but for the good of the entire world,” Francis continued, according to Reuters. ASSOCIATED PRESS Pope Francis waves to the faithful during the traditional Angelus prayer from the window of his studio overlooking St. Peter's Square at the Vatican on Sunday. The pope has not always spoken favorably of Trump and his foreign policy actions. Francis has been particularly scathing of Trump’s hardline immigration stance. In April, he criticized Trump and other “builders of walls,” saying such leaders would “end up becoming prisoners of the walls they build.” U.S. President Donald Trump meets North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the demilitarized zone between the two Koreas, becoming the first U.S. president to set foot in North Korea when he briefly crossed the military demarcation line. More here: https://t.co/NpcdzIOTl7 pic.twitter.com/1eqbE1NVhA — Reuters Top News (@Reuters) June 30, 2019 Trump and Kim met for the third time on Sunday after the U.S. president tweeted a last-minute invitation to the North Korean leader proposing a meeting at the DMZ. Trump proposed the encounter as he was preparing to leave the G-20 summit in Japan. Kim agreed and during their encounter, Trump briefly crossed into the North Korean side of the zone, becoming the first U.S. president to step foot into the hermit kingdom. The two leaders then sat down for a closed-door meeting that lasted almost an hour. Trump later said the two leaders had agreed to restart negotiations on nuclear weapons after earlier talks on the issue had stalled. “We want to see if we can do a really comprehensive, good deal,” Trump told reporters. Though the U.S. president celebrated his chat with Kim as “historic” and an “important statement,” foreign policy experts cautioned the meeting may have been nothing more than a glorified “photo op” ― unless it leads to an actual agreement. “It’s only ‘historic’ if it leads to denuke negotiations, a verifiable agreement and a peace treaty. Otherwise it’s just some nice pics and pageantry,” Victor Cha, a Korea expert from the Bush administration, wrote on Twitter.

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Stephanie Grisham waits as Air Force One is refuelled at Elmendorf Air Force Base while travelling to Japan June 26, 2019, in Anchorage, Alaska. BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/Getty Images As President Donald Trump and North Korean dictator exchanged pleasantries, behind the scenes things appeared to be quite chaotic at the hastily arranged historic meeting. While Trump and Kim were all smiles there were lots of tensions between U.S. reporters and North Korean security guards. This is the moment White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham got into a scuffle with North Korean security guards who were blocking US journalists pic.twitter.com/WSBkdDw17g — Edward Hardy (@EdwardTHardy) June 30, 2019 Those tensions reached a peak when North Korean security guards tried to prevent U.S. reporters from going inside Freedom House on the southern side of the Demilitarized Zone, where Kim and Trump held their sit-down. Faced with this resistance, Grisham got in “an all out brawl” with North Korean security, a source told CNN’s Jim Acosta. Grisham suffered some bruises from the scuffle, according to the Associated Press. Ultimately, the Secret Service had to intervene. To add to madcap day at DMZ, the North Korean security was a little overzealous, at times trying to block US reporters’ view. New WH press secretary Stephanie Grisham threw herself into it to make sure the US TV camera got into House of Freedom, and it came to body blows. pic.twitter.com/LYWhbJFkF5 — Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 30, 2019 CNN’s Allie Malloy wrote that at one point, Grisham was physically pushing back against North Koreans and shouted “Go! Go” as she made a path for the reporters to get into the room. Grisham was seen on camera pushing back North Koreans who were blocking US press. Shouting "Go! Go!" as she created a path for press to join the Trump-Kim meeting. https://t.co/smFer0JwGw — Allie Malloy (@AlliemalCNN) June 30, 2019 Grisham was named the new White House press secretary last week, taking over for Sarah Huckabee Sanders, whose last day on the job was Friday. Grisham had previously been spokeswoman for First Lady Melania Trump.

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Video Tens of thousands of pro-Beijing protesters have come out in support of police in Hong Kong. Local media say about 165,000 protesters turned up to the rally in Tamar Park on Sunday, a sign of significant pro-Beijing movement in the territory. Meanwhile, another mass rally against the now suspended extradition bill is being planned for Monday, to coincide with the 22nd anniversary of the British handover of Hong Kong to China.

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Former Texas Rep. Beto O'Rourke, a Democratic candidate for president, denounced the Trump administration's controversial "Remain in Mexico" policy for asylum seekers, accusing the U.S. government of forcing desperate migrants into precarious situations in Mexico. "This inhumane policy is causing suffering and death," O'Rourke said on "Face the Nation" Sunday. Under the policy, officially called the Migrant Protection Protocols (MPP) by the administration, migrants who claim asylum at certain ports of entry along the southwestern border are required to wait in Mexico while their cases are adjudicated in the U.S. Although it's currently in place in San Diego, Calexico and El Paso, the administration has vowed to expand the program, which is being challenged in court, along the entire southern border. The White House is betting on the policy, which has now returned more than 15,000 asylum seekers to Mexico, to curb large-scale migration from Central America. But immigrant advocates, lawyers and even some current asylum officers overseeing the program have said the practice violates U.S. and international refugee law because it sends back asylum seekers to places where they may face persecution. These places include the Mexican border cities of Tijuana, Mexicali and Ciudad Juárez, which borders El Paso, the city O'Rourke represented in Congress. "Through a program that effectively shuts them out of this country and our laws, [migrants] are forced to stay in Ciudad Juárez, where they are prey to criminal organizations, where they are penniless and where they are suffering, and where too many feel like they are forced to try to cross in between our ports of entry," O'Rourke said. The former Texas congressman is set to visit Ciudad Juárez later on Sunday to meet with migrants returned under the "Remain in Mexico" policy. Since the Trump administration began turning back asylum seekers at the El Paso port of entry, thousands of migrants have been stranded in Ciudad Juárez, one of the most violent cities in the Western Hemisphere, looking for shelter, employment and legal representation while they await their day in court in the U.S. O'Rourke said he's hoping his visit to the Mexican border city will shine a spotlight on one of the Trump administration's lesser-known immigration policies and its impact of thousands of migrants. "Going to Ciudad Juárez, Mexico and meeting with these asylum seekers is a great way for the American public to know what is being done in our name right now," he said.

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The following is a transcript of the interview with Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke that aired Sunday, June 30, 2019, on "Face the Nation." MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome back to FACE THE NATION. We are now joined by 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke who joins- joins us from El Paso. Congressman, we've had this breaking news overnight and I'm wondering if, as president, you would continue the diplomacy with Kim Jong Un, and would you accept North Korea as a contained nuclear threat if it refuses to give up its nuclear weapons? BETO O'ROURKE: You know, I would continue diplomacy contingent on progress that keeps this country and our allies safe. Despite three years of almost bizarre foreign policy from this president, this country is no safer when it comes to North Korea. They have removed none of their nuclear weapons or their potential to deliver them to the United States. And, in fact, in contravention of the United Nations they have launched other missiles flouting the diplomacy that this president has attempted so far. So, we've added legitimacy to Kim Jong Un. MARGARET BRENNAN: But it sounds like you're saying you would continue to talk to Kim Jong Un. O'ROURKE: I want to make sure that we pursue diplomatic, peaceful, nonviolent negotiations to resolve the challenges that we face on the Korean Peninsula-- MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay. O'ROURKE: --and to ensure that we denuclearize that area. MARGARET BRENNAN: I- We know from your team that you plan to go to Mexico today. What is the purpose of that visit? O'ROURKE: Me going over to Ciudad Juarez today, our- our sister city across the border from El Paso, to meet with asylum seekers who have traveled hundreds, in some cases thousands, of miles fleeing the deadliest countries on the face of the planet coming to this country trying to follow our asylum laws and through a program that effectively shuts them out of this country and our laws are forced to stay in Ciudad Juarez, where they are prey to criminal organizations, where they are penniless and where they are suffering and where too many feel like they are forced to try to cross in between our ports of entry. As we saw earlier this week, a picture of Oscar and Valeria, who died trying to do that from what the Matamoros to Brownsville. This inhumane policy is causing suffering and death, and I want to call attention to what we are doing. So going to Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, and meeting with these asylum seekers is a great way for the American public to know what is being done in our name right now. MARGARET BRENNAN: So do you believe that asylum seekers should be able to apply for asylum from other countries or from Mexico? O'ROURKE: Yes. I- I think we should follow our- our own asylum laws that are on the books, our obligations to those people to whom we are connected by land and language and culture and for whom we have some responsibility, given our involvement in the Western Hemisphere that has produced some of the challenges that they face that would cause a family to flee hundreds or thousands of miles to come here. So when we follow our own asylum laws, those people are safer. We live according to our traditions and in a program that we've proposed, a family case management program, no family is separated. They're not detained in these border patrol stations-- MARGARET BRENNAN: But that's if they cross into the United States. O'ROURKE: --they're able to be released into the community and to follow our own laws. MARGARET BRENNAN: What- what you're proposing is when they cross into the United States. I'm asking if they're applying as, now, from Mexico or from a third country. That is one of the proposed changes, also, to immigration law now. O'ROURKE: Yes, I- I think that asylum seekers should be able to apply from their home countries. So-- MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay. O'ROURKE: --from Honduras or Guatemala or El Salvador to the United States, without having to make that journey by foot in the first place, it'll ensure that they are following our laws and it will guarantee greater safety and reduce suffering for them. MARGARET BRENNAN: We are just about a month out from the next debate. During the one this week you were hit by your colleague from Texas, Julian Castro, who said, "you need to do your homework." Are you going to change your strategy for the next debate? O'ROURKE: What I'm going to do is get across what I think we can do as a country. And on the particular issue that you're referring to on- on immigration, under my administration day one we are going to stop family separation. We're going to reunite those families who have been separated. We're going to make sure that- that no one who is fleeing persecution or violence is criminally prosecuted. And we're going to follow what I was doing in Congress, where we helped to introduce legislation that would stop this and rewrite Section 1325 of U.S. code to make sure that those families who are at their most desperate and vulnerable moment do not face further fear when they get to the United States. And then in addition we're going to rewrite our immigration laws from the ground up, that the 9 million green card holders in this country, we're going to waive their citizenship fees so they can contribute even more to our success and our greatness. MARGARET BRENNAN: You'll be reliant on bending Republicans to your will on that. O'ROURKE: Well, I- I'm not so sure that I'm willing to concede that point. There are a lot of great candidates running for congressional seats and U.S. Senate seats across this country. I'm confident that 2020 is going to produce a significant change, not just in the White House, but in both houses of Congress. I think that Democratic majority on immigration, on health care, on a more inclusive economy, on confronting the challenge of climate before it's too late is going to be able to show success for the American people at this defining moment of truth. MARGARET BRENNAN: Wonderful, thank you so much Congressman O'Rourke.

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Protesters clashed with police Sunday at the 49th annual San Francisco Pride parade and at least 12 demonstrators sat down in the street with arms linked, blocking the route to protest the involvement of police and corporations including Google. A list of demands circulating on Twitter demanded "no corporations in Pride," a nod to Google's sponsorship of the parade, which some employees of the company had opposed in a petition weeks before the event. Critics have pointed out examples of hate speech toward LGBTQ people circulating on YouTube and other Google platforms. 'NOT OK, GOOGLE': EMPLOYEES, ACTIVISTS PROTEST AT ALPHABET SHAREHOLDER MEETING In a letter appealing to the Pride parade's board of directors last Wednesday, a group of 140 Google employees asked that the parade revoke Google’s sponsorship of the event but the board declined to do so. Disgruntled employees opted to organize a protest even after Google told its employees that doing so would violate the company's communications policy and code of conduct to protest the company while representing the brand at the parade. The list of demands also included stipulations against law enforcement, calling for "no police within the Pride Parade and no police presence at any Pride celebration, march or demonstration. The system of policing upholds white supremacy, hetero-patriarchy, gender binaries, and capitalist rule." The San Francisco Police Department did take part in the parade which attracted an estimated 1 million people, dedicating cruisers and vehicles decorated with rainbow-colored flags and lettering, and posting photos on Twitter with the caption "#SFPD is rolling with #Pride2019! #SafetyWithRespect" Still, groups of protestors, using rainbow-colored tubing to link arms with one another and block the streets, chanted "Stonewall was a riot" in reference to the 1969 clash between police and members of the LGBTQ community at a bar in New York City, which triggered the beginning of the modern-day LGBTQ movement, marking its 50th anniversary this year. CLICK HERE FOR THE FOX NEWS APP The movement lasted for about an hour before the streets were cleared again. The SFPD said in a statement that two people were arrested during the parade after "protestors broke down barricades and threw water bottles at officers." Pride events took place across the country Sunday. In New York City, Gov. Andrew Cuomo signed legislation that would bar people who attack or kill a gay person in the state from arguing they panicked over their victim's sexuality. The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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At a press conference before the parade, “Pose” star Indya Moore urged the crowd to not let the rainbow flags along the parade route distract from the issues facing the transgender community, such as poverty, discrimination and tension with and distrust of law enforcement. Moore has spoken of the similarities she shares with her character, Angel, a transgender sex worker who is a member of one of New York’s drag houses. Moore was a friend of Layleen Polanco, a transgender woman who died in police custody on Riker’s Island. She called on organizers of World Pride to incorporate more private security in consideration of those who have had negative encounters with law enforcement because of their identity. Moore also called on major LGBTQ advocacy groups to do more to integrate the transgender community and people of color into leadership roles and their agendas. She also urged the public to support the transgender community outside of Pride month.

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The following is a transcript of the interview with Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina that aired Sunday, June 30, 2019, on "Face the Nation." MARGARET BRENNAN: Yesterday we spoke with Senator Lindsey Graham who joined us from Istanbul, Turkey. We do want to caution you, that there will be a graphic image that some may find disturbing. We began our conversation by asking Senator Graham for his take on the president's decision to remove the ban on American companies selling goods to Chinese tech giant Huawei. SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM: Well it's a lot of leverage because Huawei is a huge Chinese company, and it really is owned by the Chinese government, it's not a private sector company as we would know it. Microsoft came into my office trying to make sure that they could sell some technology to China that would not compromise our national security. So I don't know what he agreed to regarding exceptions to the ban. If they're minor exceptions, that's okay, but if we're selling Huawei major technology, that would be a mistake. MARGARET BRENNAN: But you don't worry that this is too much of a concession on national security grounds? SEN. GRAHAM: I don't know yet. It's clearly a concession. There'll be a lot of pushback if this is a major concession. If it's a minor concession, I think it's part of the overall deal. MARGARET BRENNAN: We know President Trump did meet with President Erdogan at the G20 as well, and he seems to have the impression that President Trump said there will not be U.S. sanctions if Turkey goes ahead and buys Russian made weapons systems. Is that the case? SEN. GRAHAM: Well, I'm in Turkey and it's being reported in the Turkish media that President Erdogan is claiming that President Trump, in their discussions, told Turkey that if you activate the S-400, we'll find a way around sanctions. I doubt if that conversation occurred. It's impossible- under our law, if Turkey buys the- activates the S-400 missile battery they bought from the Russians, sanctions would be required under law. And we also, a couple of days ago, passed legislation banning the sale of the F-35 to Turkey if they activate the Russian S-400 missile battery. There's no way we're going to transfer to Turkey the F-35 technology and let them buy a Russian missile battery at the same time. It would compromise our platform. MARGARET BRENNAN: But you're not saying sanctions are inevitable at this point. You see a way around them, some kind of compromise? SEN. GRAHAM: I hope so. But under our law, there is no discretion. If they activate the S-400 Russian missile battery, they will be sanctioned under U.S. law and the F-35 technology cannot be transferred to Turkey. We need to find a way out of this dilemma. MARGARET BRENNAN: I'm sure you saw that video of Presidents Putin and Trump seeming to laugh when asked about election meddling. Did that concern you? SEN. GRAHAM: What concerns me is - are we gonna be ready for their meddling next time? I've seen this administration up their game. In 2018, we had a midterm election without a whole lot of interference because we're- we're upping our game, so to speak. So it was clearly a joke. MARGARET BRENNAN: But last time you were on this program you said Russia did not learn its lesson. So when you see this joking about something so serious regarding an upcoming election, doesn't that counter everything-- SEN. GRAHAM: Yeah. MARGARET BRENNAN: --in terms of a hard line the rest of the national security community is trying to send? SEN. GRAHAM: Yeah, I'm not so sure rebuking Putin in- in front of a bunch of cameras does much good. What hurts him is when you hit him in the polit- pocketbook. His oligarch friends are having a hard time placing their money around the world. We put tremendous sanctions on the Russian economy, particularly in the energy area and it's biting Russia. So actions mean more than anything in this part of the world. MARGARET BRENNAN: Do you believe that President Trump embracing Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman undermines the US credibility on human rights? SEN. GRAHAM: Yeah, I don't think it helps. I led the effort to sanction M.B.S., the Crown Prince. There is no doubt in my mind that he ordered the killing of Mr. Khashoggi, that he knew about it, that he's done things like that to other people and that he's been a disruptive force throughout the region. So, I'm in a completely different place when it comes to M.B.S. MARGARET BRENNAN: Here at home, I know you've been working with the president's son-in-law, Jared Kushner, and some Democrats as well to try to find some compromise around asylum laws. The president said that he will go through with rounding up migrants after the July 4th holiday. Do you see any legislative compromise? SEN. GRAHAM: Yes, I do. I spent about an hour with Speaker Pelosi and here's the compromise: we'll start turning the aid back on to Central America. It is in our national security interest to help the triangle- Northern Triangle nations with their economy, with their rule of law problems. But if you don't turn off the magnets that attract people, which is our asylum laws, if you don't reform them, they'll keep coming. All you have to do is to put one foot on the United States soil, if you're from Central America with a small child, you're not going to get deported. MARGARET BRENNAN: On that question of children, it- it was that image of that El Salvadorian father who drowned along with his 2-year-old daughter that really captured a lot of attention this week. That was his child. That was not a tool to exploit the asylum system. By warning that asylum is going to get tougher and saying that the border might close, doesn't that incentivize people that take the risk in the first place? SEN. GRAHAM: Good question. Here's what I think, and I don't know and it does break your heart to see that image and the thought that went into it. Here's what I think the father believed, "If we can just make it across the Rio Grande, and I can put one foot in America, my child and myself are gonna be in America and we're not going to get sent back." I would like that asylum claim to be made in Mexico at a U.N. center so that this father doesn't have to risk him and his child drowning in the future. Asylum claims should be made in the home country or in a facility in Mexico because the reason he tried to go across the river- he was told by people in Central America, "If you can put one foot on American soil, you're home free." And this is a tragic result of that policy. MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to quickly ask you about your friend, Joe Biden. How do you think he performed in the Democratic debate this week? SEN. GRAHAM: He's got to up his game. But anybody that knows Joe Biden, there's not a racist bone in his body. That's not a clichè, that's reality. But the narrative is that maybe it's not his time and that he's not up to the task. I think you will esti- underestimate Joe Biden at your own peril. I watched the debate. The policy options being presented to the country by the leading contenders on the Democratic side are their biggest problem. Pretty liberal, pretty extreme. But when it comes to Joe Biden, I think the next debate, he's got to change the narrative. And one thing I'll say about Kamala Harris, and I said this before, she's got game. She is very talented, she's very smart and she'll be a force to be reckoned with. MARGARET BRENNAN: Senator Graham, thank you very much for your time. SEN. GRAHAM: Thank you. MARGARET BRENNAN: We'll be right back with more from our political panel.

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Video Thousands of protesters have taken to the streets of Khartoum in Sudan, calling for an end to military rule. Sudan has been controlled by a military council since pro-democracy protests led to the ousting of veteran President Omar al-Bashir in April, after 30 years of authoritarian rule.

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Thousands of pro-government protesters have rallied outside the government headquarters in Hong Kong on Sunday as tensions rose on the eve of what is expected to be Hong Kong’s fourth mass protest in a month against a controversial extradition law. While top officials attend a ceremony on 1 July every year to mark the anniversary of Hong Kong’s handover of sovereignty from the UK to China, a large anti-government protest also takes place on the same day. A large turnout is expected on Monday, the 22nd anniversary of the handover, as the city is rocked by its biggest political crisis in decades. Millions have taken to the streets to protest against the proposed law allowing for the extradition of individuals for trial in mainland China, where the opaque court system is controlled by the Communist party. The protests throughout June have been largely peaceful, but on 12 June, the scene turned violent when police used rubber bullets, teargas, pepper spray and batons to disperse crowds and some protesters threw objects back at the police. Protesters have also surrounded the police headquarters twice in past weeks in noisy and emotionally charged protests in which young people spray-painted obscenities on its front wall and barricaded its entrances. Police set up giant water-filled barricades in anticipation of overnight rallies by anti-extradition protesters to lock down the area where the handover anniversary ceremony is to take place.

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Image copyright AFP Donald Trump don become di first sitting US presido to march enta North Korea soil, afta im meeting wit Kim Jong-un for di area wey divide di two Koreas. Oga Trump and di North Korean leader pose for handshake before im tok for nearly one hour inside di heavily armed demilitarised zone (DMZ). Both kontris agree say dem go form teams to begin nuclear tok-tok again wey don hang for some months. Dia last meeting togeda ontop nuclear mata bin hang for February. Image copyright Reuters Image example Mr Trump and Mr Kim dey shake hands for di North Korean side of di border Critics don wash di meeting between di two leaders - wey don see face-to-face for di third time in just over one year - as political drama. Dem say North Korea still need to prove say e serious about stopping nuclear weapons development. Image copyright Reuters Image example Trump and Kim for di DMZ Wetin happun for di DMZ? For meeting wey e be like say dem arrange afta Oga Trump send Oga Kim invitation on Twitter on Saturday, dem shake hands as dem tanda for di line wey separate di two Korea kontris. Small time afta, Trump come cross enta North Korea, to make ogbonge history. "Good to see you again. I no expect to meet you for dis place," Kim tell Trump through interpreter for encounter wey dem broadcast live on international television. "Big moment," Mr Trump reply, "ogbonge progress."

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Democrats gained unified control of five more states in the 2018 elections ― meaning they hold the governor’s mansion and majorities in both chambers of the state legislature. And they’re taking advantage of it, passing measures to strengthen voting rights, anti-discrimination measures, health care and more. Democrats now have control in 14 states, plus the District of Columbia. Connecticut’s evenly split state Senate went blue, and Democrats maintained control of the state House and the governor’s mansion. Democrats in Colorado clinched unified control by flipping the state Senate. In Maine, Democrats flipped both the state Senate and the governor’s seat. The Democratic gubernatorial candidate won in New Mexico — alongside two already-blue chambers — giving Democrats complete control of the state’s politics. And in New York, Democrats flipped seats in the Senate for consolidated control of the state. smartboy10/Getty Images Democrats now have unified control of 14 states and the District of Columbia. At the national level, Republican control of the White House and Senate prevents Democrats from enacting their agendas. Yet while even Democratic state lawmakers could not get everything done that they wanted to, the examples below provide a glimpse of what they can do if they get the chance. Derek Davis/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images A 9-year-old carries a sign at a May abortion rights rally in Portland, Maine. Health Care And Reproductive Rights In Colorado, lawmakers passed a framework for public health insurance for residents in rural counties and bills designed to address the opioid crisis. New Mexico Democrats passed Obamacare protections, guaranteeing coverage for people with pre-existing conditions regardless of federal changes to health care policy. In Maine, a new measure expands abortion access by allowing “advanced practice clinicians” such as physician assistants and registered nurses to perform abortion procedures ― not just doctors. Gov. Janet Mills (D) said the measure would expand abortion access, particularly to people living in rural areas. Maine follows seven other states that allow APCs to perform abortions, a practice supported by health organizations including the American Public Health Association and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynocologists. In January, New York passed the Reproductive Health Act, integrating Roe v. Wade into state law. (AP Photo/Hans Pennink) New York Assemblywoman Maritza Davila, center, urges state senators to pass the Green Light Bill granting undocumented immigrants access to driver's licenses, during a June 17 rally in Albany, N.Y. Despite hesitation from some Democrats, the bill passed and was signed the next day. Immigration Before the session ended, New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham (D) ordered the withdrawal of most of the 118 National Guard troops at the state’s southern border, sending a bold message to the White House moments before President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address. In New York, Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D) signed a bill that allows undocumented immigrants to apply for drivers licenses, an issue that previous governors failed to get passed. Cuomo was initially supportive of the bill but became more hesitant after it passed the state Assembly. He raised concerns about the possibility of immigration enforcement agencies using DMV information to track down undocumented immigrants. Ultimately, once the state attorney general said the bill’s safeguards would prevent it from being “weaponized” against undocumented people, Cuomo signed the measure into law. Voting As Democratic presidential candidates tout their plans to promote voting rights and political participation, Democrats in the states are already working to strengthen voting rights measures. Maine is moving to a primary system with ranked choice voting, leaving presidential caucuses behind. In this system, also known as Instant Runoff Voting, voters rank candidates from first to last, and the candidate with the most first-choice votes is the winner. If there is no clear winner, candidates with the fewest first-choice votes are eliminated until one candidate wins an outright majority. Several other countries, like New Zealand and Ireland, use the voting system, but Maine is the first U.S. state to implement it. New Mexico joined 17 other states and the District of Columbia in implementing same-day registration for voting. Starting in 2021, New Mexicans will now be required to show an ID at their polling location in exchange for a provisional ballot on Election Day. New York’s legislative session began and ended with lawmakers taking strides toward voting and election reform. Lawmakers passed a series of voting rights bills, including early voting, pre-registration of 16- and 17-year-olds, consolidating what used to be two primary days, and moving the party enrollment deadline closer to the primary. Many activists and lawmakers say it would have been better to make the party enrollment deadline for previously registered voters the same as the voter registration deadline, New York state Sen. Brian Kavanagh (D), who sponsored the bill, told HuffPost the bill’s passage is a “big step forward.” Patrick Raycraft/Hartford Courant via Getty Images Michael Song, at right, and his wife, Kristen, center, along with legislators and gun-safety advocates, pushed for Connecticut to create requirements for safe gun storage. The bill was named "Ethan's Law" in memory of the son the Songs lost in a firearm accident at a friend's home. Guns A series of firearm safety bills passed in Connecticut, including two safe storage laws and one “ghost gun” law. The storage laws require all firearms, loaded or unloaded, to be safely stored in homes occupied by minors, and for pistols kept in vehicles to only be stored in the trunk, a locked glove box, or a locked safe. Connecticut also closed a loophole on ghost guns ― untraceable firearms sold in parts and assembled at home ― now making it illegal to manufacture a firearm without subsequently engraving or permanently attaching an identifying mark to it, like a serial number, so the gun can be traced. While signing the bills, Gov. Ned Lamont stressed that gun violence prevention only goes so far without the federal government’s support. “In our country, we have a patchwork of gun laws in each individual state – and as they say, we are only as strong as our weakest link. For the safety of our communities, we must demand federal action on this issue,” Lamont said. In Colorado, Gov. Jared Polis signed a “red flag” gun law, an extreme risk protection order that will go into effect in January 2020. Red flag laws allow judges to temporarily ban individuals from buying or owning guns if they receive a request from family members or law enforcement. Education And Family In Connecticut, residents will soon be able to take advantage of a paid family medical leave plan that passed in the 2019 legislative session. The law is one of the most generous plans in the country, allowing residents to take up to three months off with pay if they or a family member become sick or if they have a baby. Although Lamont previously said he would veto the bill, he signed the plan into law on Tuesday. Colorado will now offer free full-day kindergarten starting in the 2019-20 school year ― one of Polis’ top priorities. The full-day kindergarten plan still depends on individual districts switching their programming from a half day to full day, though many have already said they plan to. And in Maine, Mills signed a bill that requires student loan lenders to register in order to do business in Maine. The bill prohibits predatory actions such as misleading borrowers and committing fraud. The state also would be able to investigate lenders for these claims. Criminal Justice Over two years after Maine residents voted to legalize recreational marijuana, Mills signed a bill to regulate and legalize the sale of recreational marijuana on Thursday. The law outlines the rules for growing, buying and selling marijuana and how to apply for a license. State officials expect legal weed to arrive in stores by early 2020 and anticipate the state will pull in $22 million in sales during the first three months. New Mexico also made headway in criminal justice reform. The state “banned the box” ― prohibiting employers from including a question on job applications about an applicant’s criminal history ― and legislators are considering barring jail officials from putting juveniles, pregnant women and inmates with serious mental disabilities in solitary confinement. New Mexico also decriminalized drug paraphernalia (the first state in the country to do so) and small quantities of marijuana. Morgan Lee/AP Photo New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham talks after signing an executive order for state agencies to aggressively pursue strategies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in January. Environment In the climate sector, Maine’s legislature passed three significant renewable energy and climate action bills, including a commitment to reducing carbon and setting a target for using 100% renewable energy by 2050. They also passed an offshore wind initiative. And New Mexico committed to pursuing a transition from coal to renewable energy by passing the Energy Transition Act. Energy, Minerals and Natural Resources Department Secretary Sarah Cottrell Propst called the measure the “strongest package of its kind in the country.” Finally, New York passed one of the most ambitious climate bills in the country and is waiting on a signature from Cuomo. The bill would set a goal to have the state run on 100% carbon-free electricity by 2040 and economy-wide, net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Many Democratic-led states, such as Maine, Colorado and New Mexico, have passed laws designed to reduce harmful emissions, but the size of New York’s economy is what makes this plan so ambitious. Anti-Discrimination Measures Lawmakers in Colorado passed equal pay legislation in late May, compensating employees who are underpaid as a result of their gender when they win a civil suit confirming it. The law kicks in on Jan. 1, 2021. “We are fighting for women to be treated with the dignity, fairness and respect they deserve,” state Rep. Serena Gonzales-Gutierrez (D) told The Denver Post after Polis signed the bill. New York also passed an equal pay bill, covering all protected classes. Furthermore, two of the newly Democrat-controlled states banned the homophobic and transphobic “gay and trans panic defense,” which had allowed defendants to potentially justify a violent crime as a reaction to a victim’s sexuality. Connecticut became the fifth state to do so, banning the defense for violence or criminal behavior, and New York, the sixth, prohibited the defense for homicides. New York also passed the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act, which aims to combat discrimination against transgender people by establishing gender identity as a protected class in multiple contexts, including housing and employment. (Hans Pennink/AP Photo) New York Assemblyman Daniel O'Donnell (D) sponsored the bill in New York banning the "gay and trans panic" defense. Minimum Wage In Connecticut, Lamont signed a law in January that provides interest-free loans to federal workers affected by the government shutdown — his first piece of legislation after being sworn in on Jan. 9. Both essential and nonessential federal workers can apply for loans of up to $5,000. The bill is an example of what can be accomplished when the private sector and a bipartisan public sector work together, Lamont said in a statement. Connecticut also joined seven other states in passing a scheduled minimum wage increase to $15 per hour by 2023. The state’s current minimum wage is $10.10 — almost $3.00 higher than the federal minimum wage requirement — but lawmakers felt it wasn’t enough. And New Mexico lawmakers increased the minimum wage for the first time in a decade, from $7.50 (just above the $7.25 federal minimum wage) to $9. They intend to further increase the minimum wage to $12 by 2023. The state also raised the minimum wage for teachers and tipped workers.

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After winning the European Parliament elections, Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party has unveiled its candidates for the next Westminster election at its “Big Vision” rally. Annunziata Rees-Mogg, party MEP and sister to Tory Brexit supporter Jacob Rees-Mogg, served as hypewoman as the candidates were introduced to attendees, joking “I’m now old news” and that the slate of Westminster parliamentary candidates were the future. “Amongst these candidates there are economists, civil engineers, [a] forklift truck driver, teachers, academics… You name it, they are part of our country, they are part of our party,” she said. “This is where real people start to shape our country’s great future” THE BIG VISION RALLY LIVE – TEXT 'BREXIT' TO 80777 TO DONATE £5 https://t.co/rZuXHOeh11 — The Brexit Party (@brexitparty_uk) June 30, 2019 Ms Rees-Mogg was followed by party chairman and entrepreneur Richard Tice, also elected to the European Parliament in June, who joked that the Big Vision rally’s venue had been used by Tory Party leadership finalists Boris Johnson and Jeremy Hunt — “the blonde and the bland” — and mustered far fewer attendees than his own surging party. Mr Tice announced some of the Brexit Party’s signature policies: direct democracy, and hundreds of billions of investment in the north of the country, which has increasingly fallen behind London and its environs in the south-east, where the political class base themselves. “We’ve got much bigger, bolder ambitions [than winning the EU elections],” he explained. “We want to be the biggest party in Westminster.” He then unveiled a video explaining why he believes a strong plan for Britain’s left-behind regions is key to that ambition, saying it was not fair that London had got so much investment in infrastructure while they had been left to languish. The Brexit Party, he said, would save “a hundred billion quid” moving “wealthy people to London faster” with the contentious High Speed Rail 2 (HS2) project, cancel Theresa May’s plan to send “almost £40 billion to Brussels” as the price of a Brexit “deal”, and slash the bloated foreign aid budget. He also repudiated the claims of “Remoaners” that Brexiteers do not care about young people, pledging to stop charging interest on student loans and to cancel the accumulated interest on existing student loans. This is why ⁦@BorisJohnson⁩ ⁦@Jeremy_Hunt⁩ have to deliver Brexit by 31st Oct: ⁦@brexitparty_uk⁩ will destroy the Tory party if UK doesn’t leave. There are 6000 people at the Big Vision Rally at the Birmingham NEC today… pic.twitter.com/yCSfX4cn4x — Isabel Oakeshott (@IsabelOakeshott) June 30, 2019 Mr Tice was followed by Tim Martin, arguably the country’s best-known and most successful pub landlord, who emphasised how democracy has enriched countries like the United States and South Korea, while their less democratic neighbours to their south and north, respectively, have struggled. Mr Martin was clear where he felt the European Union fell on the democratic spectrum, describing its “five unelected presidents” and railing against a European Parliament where members cannot initiate legislation and a European court unaccountable to any elected national parliament. He also took aim at Project Fear, recalling that the massive job losses promised in the event of a vote to Leave had not materialised, and that similar threats about the impact of not joining the troubled Eurozone single currency area had proved unfounded. Tim Martin: Look at North vs South Korea. Democracy always means prosperity. — The Brexit Party (@brexitparty_uk) June 30, 2019 Mr Tice returned to the mic to describe the party’s reform agenda, suggesting the first-past-the-post voting system, the Civil Service, the House of Lords, postal voting, and the BBC licence fee would all be overhauled. Without further ado, the Brexit Party chairman then introduced the Brexit Party leader, Nigel Farage, with a short video — followed by his arrival on stage to a rapturous reception. Mr Farage began by reflecting that the Brexit Party had been launched just 49 days ago, and had already made stunning progress. “It’s been unbelievably, as Richard said, we didn’t just top the polls [in the EU elections]… we’ve managed to polls for how [people] intend to vote in the next general election,” he said. “We have given people hope: that’s our major achievement,” he added, lambasting the two-party system which has “only served itself”. “Brexit is the greatest opportunity that any of us will see in our lifetimes,” he added. Brexit Party Declares War on Postal Vote Fraud, Legal Challenge to Vote-rigger’s Involvement in By-Election https://t.co/CmNhOzLsFK — Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) June 24, 2019 “If you vote Tory, you will get [Labour leader Jeremy] Corbyn, and you should stand aside for the Labour Party who can beat them,” Farage said, alluding to the fact that it is the Brexit Party, and not the Tories, who are now the major challengers to Labour in many constituencies. He also threw down the gauntlet to Tory leadership favourite Boris Johnson, warning him, “I will not be put back in my box by you or anyone else!” — prompting cheers of “Nigel! Nigel!” The veteran campaigners also announced the publication of a new free newspaper named The Brexiteer, and a planed national action day which would see 500 stalls erected across the country. “Without us, there will be no proper Brexit — because we have a Remain Parliament; because we have a Remain broadcast media — Andrew Marr, anybody? — but in politics itself, who should we trust?” he asked. “Should we trust Boris Johnson or Jeremy Hunt, perhaps?” he continued — prompting shouts of “NO” from the audience. Farage recalled that current Tory leader Theresa May’s promises — 108 of them — to deliver Brexit on March 29th had been broken; that Jeremy Hunt was a Remainer; and that Boris wrote about Mrs May’s proposed EU treaty that it would reduce Britain to vassalage, but voted for it on the third time of asking anyway. “What is he on? Is he spending too much time with Michael Gove?” he quipped, referring to the Environment Secretary’s recent admission of cocaine use. “Rule number one of British politics is ‘Never trust the Tories’,” he added. He suggested that the “North London aristocracy” running the Labour Party were little better, however, citing Sir Keir Starmer, Emily Thornberry, and Diane Abbott — who received successively louder boos from the crowd. Like Richard Tice, he emphasised the Brexit Party’s desire to “invest in the rest” outside to London, and that its “Brexit Booster Plan” would revitalise the wider country. He pledged big investment in high-speed Internet and telecommunications infrastructure, lamenting that countries like Namibia, where he spent the New Year, were often better served than parts of England. “Why don’t we, outside of the European Union, give [public] contracts to British companies?” he added. “And why don’t we link that thought with our own younger generation? Yeah, I know more of them voted Remain than voted Brexit, but given the prevailing bias in schools and universities, perhaps that’s not surprising,” he said. “Our young people have been horribly misled,” he continued, saying they should not be turned off from “learning trades and skills” in favour of being packed off to university en masse, acquiring unhelpful degrees and substantial debts. He suggested that major infrastructure investments would be an opportunity to create many genuine apprenticeships, and that for those young people who do go to university, interest payments which in days gone by “would have been called usury” would be scrapped. .@Nigel_Farage: Labour are now the party of remain. They no longer represent the working class of this country. https://t.co/R2T2GumFHF — The Brexit Party (@brexitparty_uk) June 30, 2019 “Thank you, everybody,” Farage concluded, pledging that the Brexit Part would be a “radical force” for change in British politics. Mr Tice echoed these sentiments, saying the party would “put the fear of God” in the Westminster establishment — before wrapping up the rally with the traditional chants of “What do we want? Brexit! When do we want it? Now!” Follow Jack Montgomery on Twitter: @JackBMontgomery

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Canadian artist fired after viral Trump cartoon The cartoon depicted Trump golfing over the bodies of the father and daughter who drowned in the Rio Grande.

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The following is a transcript of the interview with Democratic Sen. Amy Klobuchar of Minnesota that aired Sunday, June 30, 2019, on "Face the Nation." MARGARET BRENNAN: Welcome back. We are now joined by Minnesota senator and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate Amy Klobuchar. She joins us from Minneapolis. Good morning, senator. SENATOR AMY KLOBUCHAR: Thanks, Margaret. Hello. MARGARET BRENNAN: We saw this historic moment with President Trump stepping into North Korea. And I wonder, if you're commander in chief, would you continue the diplomacy that he has started? SEN. KLOBUCHAR: You always have to talk to everyone when it is American security and the world's security at stake. But he keeps having these summits and meetings that really don't produce anything. There's been a number of them now, and this time, you know, you just can't look at this as going over and talking to your dictator next door and bringing them a hot dish over the fence. There is a lot more. And what this is about, is making sure that there are measurable results, that we have a plan when we go in there and we just haven't seen that. In fact, just in May you saw North Korea launch another missile into the sea in violation of the U.N. resolution and to me, you need to have a plan to denuclearize that peninsula or at least reduce those weapons immediately, and I just don't see that happening, yes. But yet, we know that talks are good, but I just don't see this president- when you look at what happened in Iran when he got out of that agreement and we were 10 minutes away from war and a month away from them blowing the caps when it comes to uranium- enriching uranium. When you look what he did with the nuclear agreement with Russia, he is constantly- climate change pulling us back from working with our allies to try to solve these problems. MARGARET BRENNAN: You said there, North Korea would denuc- denuclearize or at least need to reduce their arsenal. Would you accept them as a nuclear power? SEN. KLOBUCHAR: I- no, I would not. What I'm saying is you need to have steps and measures and you would- could start there and then of course you have dates and you have times and you have a focus and you have a plan. But that is not what he does. He goes and gets a letter and says, "I love the guy," right in the face of the Warmbier's, who lost their son, Otto. So I am concerned just because of the track record here. Talk is good, but if all it is is talk it doesn't produce anything for national security for America and international security for our allies. MARGARET BRENNAN: As Commander-in-chief what would you do differently with China? What leverage would you use to get them to capitulate on trade? SEN. KLOBUCHAR: I would first acknowledge to the American people very clearly the problem here. The surveillance, the intellectual property violations are basically stealing our blueprints, what they have done when it comes to subsidizing industries and manipulating their currency. The second thing that I would do is to work with our allies and to push them, and I wouldn't have just walk away from every negotiating table, months goes by. I think you have to keep at it methodically. And mostly, I wouldn't have used the approach they've used. Yes, targeted tariffs, but they have used basically a meat cleaver or maybe we should call it a "tweet cleaver" when it comes to how they're dealing with these other countries. And when you talk to Larry Kudlow and he talked about the patriotism of our farmers, I'm in a very heavy ag state. Iowa, my neighbor is a heavy ag state, North Dakota. I've talked to farmers in those areas and what they tell me is, they're not going to get that soybean market back in one year because that market has gone to farmers in other countries. And so that's why there's an urgency to this when we have an 891 billion dollar trade deficit, which is the worst that we've seen. You can't just keep talking about it. You actually have to get it done. MARGARET BRENNAN: You heard me ask Larry Kudlow about Republican senators' concerns about Huawei. You are a sitting senator, would you vote to ban American companies from doing business with them? SEN. KLOBUCHAR: I don't think we should be doing business with them right now. And I agree with my colleagues not just Senator Rubio, but also Senator Warner, Mark Warner, who is the ranking on the Intelligence Committee, that this is a major security risk for America. You know, you look at everything from China to Russia using cyber against us. It is the modern warfare we certainly know that from our elections in 2016. They may not use tanks or missiles but they can go after our electric grid. They can go after our security in a very different way. And so I don't know why he would just give that away right now. I would think that he would put firm, firm standards in place as part of any agreement with China. And that's not what we have. We just have another promise that they're going to buy American agriculture. Okay, that's positive. But I wouldn't give it up in that short term gain for the long term where we need to protect our security and our cybersecurity. MARGARET BRENNAN: I want to ask you about the debates this week. One question to many of your colleagues and competitors was whether their health care plan would cover undocumented immigrants. Would your plan do that? SEN. KLOBUCHAR: As part of comprehensive immigration reform, we must move forward on making sure that people have health care. California just did that with Medicaid, and I am supportive of that but I think on the national basis, as we go forward, get immediate health care for people, yes. But as part of making this actually happen, you need comprehensive immigration reform. And one thing that was missing from the NBC debate, actually, that I hope we can discuss, is that we have a humanitarian crisis at the border right now. But we also did not talk about the other immigrants that are here. The people who are here on temporary legal status, we've got hundreds of thousands of people that are legally here that are at risk or are being deported that work in our nursing homes and our hospitals. We have got dreamers, two million of them, that came to this country through no fault of their own and are a major part of our economy. So, we need to have an economic discussion about this, as well as a border discussion-- MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay, so-- SEN. KLOBUCHAR: --and that's why I want to move forward, as president, with comprehensive immigration reform. MARGARET BRENNAN: So that was a yes? That your health care plan would cover-- SEN. KLOBUCHAR: That was a yes-- MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay. SEN. KLOBUCHAR: --for immediate health care needs, but as far as other benefits I think we need to- that has got to be a part of the discussion of comprehensive immigration reform. MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay, because they were excluded from the existing Obamacare law. SEN. KLOBUCHAR: That is correct. Yes. MARGARET BRENNAN: So you are- I mean you- you- you call yourself a pragmatist. You're, in many ways-- SEN. KLOBUCHAR: Yes. MARGARET BRENNAN: --perceived as a moderate from the Midwest. Do you feel, sometimes, that the rest of the party is- is- is leaving you behind? That it's-- SEN. KLOBUCHAR: No-- MARGARET BRENNAN: --gone so progressive? SEN. KLOBUCHAR: I think- I- I- I think- I'm thinking the issues you're focused here on, for instance, Medicare for all- and I want universal health care, I just got a different way to get there. And as I said in the debate, I don't think that we should take away people's right to their private insurance and kick half of America off of their private insurance. I think there is a better way to do this and that strengthening Obamacare, taking on the pharmaceuticals. On free college for all, I made it very clear, I want to expand Pell grants, make it easier for kids to go to college. But I don't think- and that's what some of these plans do, that we should be using taxpayer money to finance rich kids to go to college. Many of our public universities, something like 10 percent of the kids come from families that make over 200,000 dollars a year. And I think that taxpayer money is better used to get free community college, to help kids get certifications, when those are some of the fastest growing degreed jobs we have in this nation. And so to me, this is a legitimate policy argument about how we help people afford college, help them pay off their loans, make bold policy changes, which this president is not doing. But I think there's room in our party for a legitimate debate. I just think it's important to realize there's a lot more that unifies us than separate- that there's a lot more that unifies us than there is that divides us, and that divide right now is with the American people and the president. He promised them pharmaceutical prices going down, they've gone up. He promised them infrastructure, he has done-- MARGARET BRENNAN: Okay. SEN. KLOBUCHAR: --nothing. He promised them a safer world when he got out of the Iranian agreement. It is not safer. That's the case we need to make. MARGARET BRENNAN: All right, we'll look for you on that next debate stage. Thank you very much, Senator Klobuchar.

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Washington (CNN) People gathered at a 2020 presidential fundraiser for Joe Biden Saturday pushed back against the former vice president's claim that just a few years ago people in Washington state would have let a homophobic comment slide, saying "Not in Seattle!" The presidential hopeful suggested public sentiment toward gay rights issues has come far in a short period of time, saying five years ago if someone at a business meeting in Seattle "made fun of a gay waiter" people would just let it go, according to a pool report of the event. The audience vocally responded to the remark and some in the crowd said homophobic comments would not have gone unchallenged even before five years ago, according to the report. The event was hosted by public relations executive Roger Nyhus, who is known as a leader in the Seattle gay rights community. Biden said if someone made homophobic comments today, "that person would not be invited back," and said it was wrong that a gay couple could get married one day and get fired the next in 22 states because they lacked legal protections from job discrimination. Biden recalled when he, as vice president, said publicly in 2012 that he supported same-sex marriage before former President Barack Obama. Obama, who had previously said his position on the issue was "evolving," announced his support for same-sex marriage after Biden's comments. Read More

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While talks Saturday between President Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at the G20 summit in Japan focused on resolving trade disputes, there is another major issue dividing our two countries: the fight for freedom by the people of Hong Kong. We don’t know what, if anything, Trump and Xi said about Hong Kong. But the fate of the former British colony and the rights of its citizens are important and should be of concern to Americans and free people everywhere. NEWT GINGRICH: SOME CHINESE STUDENTS AT US COLLEGES ARE CHINESE SPIES Protesters claim nearly 2 million people have joined their ranks to stage demonstrations and marches against a controversial extradition bill, while Hong Kong police estimated peak turnout of protesters was 338,000. The protests have being going on for weeks, as the people of Hong Kong have tried desperately to stop their semi-autonomous democratic government from succumbing to Beijing’s pressure and passing deeply unpopular extradition legislation. The extradition bill would nullify the civil liberties and criminal justice protections that Hong Kongers enjoy. It could lead to the end of Hong Kong’s autonomy from mainland China, which is ruled by the heavy hand of the Communist Party. In addition to demonstrating outside the Hong Kong consulates of all the G20 powers, the anti-extradition protesters were on the ground in Osaka Japan during the summit, making the issue of Hong Kong’s fate impossible to ignore. Hong Kong’s pro-democracy protesters were right to raise their grievances at the summit that was focused on trade and economics. Trade, geopolitics and human rights are deeply interrelated. Hong Kong punches well above it weight both economically and with respect to freedom. The Heritage Foundation’s 2019 Index of Economic Freedom ranks Hong Kong’s capitalist economy as the freest in the world. China’s essentially state-run economy, operating under a Communist dictatorship, ranks a dismal No. 100 on the freedom index. Demonstrating the benefits of economic freedom, the gross domestic product per person in Hong Kong last year was $49,000 – while mainland China lagged far behind at only $10,000. Hong Kong is a bastion of freedom and prosperity on the doorstep of a totalitarian giant, standing as a prominent example of what economic freedom can do. If Chinese leaders were truly interested in acting in the best interests of their people and stimulating economic growth and prosperity they would make China more like Hong Kong. Instead, they want to bring their iron-fisted rule to Hong Kong and make it more like the rest of China. Not surprisingly, Beijing used its veto power to keep any discussion of the Hong Kong protests off the G20 summit agenda. “We will not allow the G20 to discuss the Hong Kong issue,” China’s assistant minister of foreign affairs told reporters Monday. That’s unfortunate. It’s a discussion China will find difficult to avoid. As things stand, the special autonomy Hong Kong enjoys makes it exempt from the counter-tariffs that President Trump has imposed on the Chinese mainland, as well as export restrictions limiting advanced technology that China can buy from the U.S. This arrangement benefits everyone. Hong Kong serves as a gateway between the West and China, where companies from both systems can trade and collaborate. It’s a relationship and a status well worth protecting from totalitarian excesses. The U.S. Congress is considering bipartisan legislation titled the Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act of 2019 that would use trade as leverage to exert pressure on the Chinese government to respect Hong Kong’s autonomy, democracy, and traditions of law and justice. One of the stated purposes of the legislation is “to ensure that all residents of Hong Kong are afforded freedom from arbitrary or unlawful arrest, detention, or imprisonment.” Seems pretty reasonable. The U.S. legislation would require China to respect Hong Kong’s autonomy to preserve the favorable trading status Hong Kong has with America. Congress should pass it expeditiously. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Economic freedom permeates every facet of world power and that is why the eyes of the world were on Presidents Trump and Xi in Osaka. Trump is making far more progress on the trade front that his critics imagined he could. Hopefully, protecting those in Hong Kong fighting for their liberty will be a part of whatever trade deal Trump ultimately achieves. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM ANDY PUZDER

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(CNN) Three people were arrested and eight people injured, including at least three police officers, during violent demonstrations in Portland on Saturday, according to police. Multiple assaults were reported, police said, and items were thrown at demonstrators and officers that looked like milkshakes but contained quick-dry concrete. Portland Fire & Rescue medics treated eight people on the scene, authorities said, including three police officers. Two officers were pepper sprayed, an officer was punched in the arm by a demonstrator, and an officer sustained a head injury from a projectile, police said. The injuries were not life-threatening. Read More

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CLOSE Stephanie Grisham, who also serves as the first lady's deputy chief of staff, will become President Trump's third press secretary in three years. USA TODAY Incoming White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham received bruises when she got caught in the middle of a tussle between U.S. reporters and North Korean security officials during President Donald Trump's trip to the Demilitarized Zone dividing North and South Korea. The incident occurred after Trump on Sunday became the first U.S. president to cross the DMZ and step onto North Korean soil. Chaos ensued as reporters and photographers jostled to get the best positions to witness the historic moment and security officials tried to rein them in. At one point, Kim appeared to chuckle at the ruckus as people shouted at each other to get out of the way. After shaking hands on the border, Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met in a room in the Freedom House on the southern side of Panmunjom. North Korean guards pushed and shoved members of the U.S. press pool as they tried to block the reporters from entering the room, The Associated Press reported. Grisham was injured and left with bruises in the exchange, which ended when Secret Service agents intervened. More: Grisham's unlikely path from Arizona politics to Trump's White House "To add to madcap day at DMZ, the North Korean security was a little overzealous, at times trying to block US reporters’ view," tweeted Jennifer Jacobs, senior White House correspondent for Bloomberg. "New WH press secretary Stephanie Grisham threw herself into it to make sure the US TV camera got into House of Freedom, and it came to body blows." To add to madcap day at DMZ, the North Korean security was a little overzealous, at times trying to block US reporters’ view. New WH press secretary Stephanie Grisham threw herself into it to make sure the US TV camera got into House of Freedom, and it came to body blows. pic.twitter.com/LYWhbJFkF5 — Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) June 30, 2019 ABC News White House correspondent Jonathan Karl reported that Grisham "was not having it" when the North Korean security officials tried to block the U.S. reporters, "physically clearing the way for the WH press pool by elbowing and pushing aside a security guard." Apparently some of the Korean (North?) security team did not want the US press in the Kim/Trump meeting. New press secretary @StephGrisham45 was not having it, physically clearing the way for the WH press pool by elbowing and pushing aside a security guard. — Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) June 30, 2019 A video appearing to show at least part of the incident, which a source described to CNN as a "brawl," was shared on social media. This is the moment White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham got into a scuffle with North Korean security guards who were blocking US journalists pic.twitter.com/WSBkdDw17g — Edward Hardy (@EdwardTHardy) June 30, 2019 Trump announced last week that Grisham had accepted his offer to replace Sarah Sanders as his White House press secretary. She will be the third person to hold the job since Trump took office. Grisham is also taking over as White House communications director, a position that had been vacant since former Fox News executive Bill Shine resigned in March. Grisham had been serving as first lady Melania Trump's communications director. She has a long relationship with the Trump family and worked as aide on Trump's 2016 presidential campaign. "Stepping across that line was a great honor," Trump told Kim after entering North Korean territory. He was said it was a "legendary" moment that could lead to progress on negotiations aimed at ending North Korea's nuclear weapons program. But the Trump administration's efforts to get Kim to scrap his nuclear arsenal have not yet met with success. And many experts said the recent meeting at the DMZ was largely symbolic and unlikely to achieve any more results than Trump's two denuclearization summits with Kim. Contributing: David Jackson and Michael Collins, USA TODAY; The Associated Press Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2019/06/30/stephanie-grisham-bruised-scuffle-north-korea-guards/1611270001/

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CLOSE Lady Gaga gave an emotional speech to a crowd at the Stonewall Day rally in New York. The artist held back tears as she told the crowd she loved them. USA TODAY New York City is hosting a massive Pride march on Sunday, topping off a month of rallies, parties and conferences celebrating the LGBTQ community. 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising, when members of the city's LGBTQ community stood up to police at the Stonewall Inn. To commemorate this turning point in the gay liberation movement, NYC is holding WorldPride – the largest Pride celebration in the world. WorldPride, an international LGBTQ celebration, began in Rome in 2000. This is the first time it's being held in the United States. 'In every community': 10 great places where LGBTQ history was made New York's Pride March starts at noon, with 677 contingents marching together. Some notable people marching are cast members from the dance musical POSE, transgender activist and veteran Monica Helms and the Gay Liberation front, the first LGBTQ activist organization formed after Stonewall. The Reclaim Pride Coalition will be hosting a rival march, the Queer Liberation March, protesting the presence of police and corporate partnerships of the larger NYC Pride. The Queer Liberation March kicked off at 9:30 a.m. at the Stonewall Inn, heading later to Central Park for a rally. Activists lie on Sixth Avenue during the Queer Liberation March on June 30, 2019, in New York. (Photo: Kena Betancur, Getty Images) New York is not alone in celebrating Pride this Sunday. Chicago is also hosting a parade. Lori Lightfoot, the city's first openly gay mayor, is one of the grand marshals. San Francisco, too, is hosting its Pride parade Sunday. San Francisco Pride included Google as a sponsor, prompting backlash from a group of Google employees who spoke of harassment and hate speech directed toward LGBTQ people on Google platforms. SF Pride declined to remove Google as a sponsor but said the Google opponents could protest the company's policies as part of the "Resistance Contingent." Big business: Corporate America gets on the Pride parade, and it's appreciated, but also complicated Pride celebrations took place across the world as well. Thousands of LGBTQ activists marched in Paris this weekend, braving a heat wave to commemorate the Stonewall protests. In Dublin, police officers took place in the Pride parade for the first time, according to BBC. Read or Share this story: https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/06/30/nyc-pride-worldpride-celebrating-lgbtq-community/1611436001/

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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - European Union leaders meet on Sunday to decide who wins the bloc’s top posts, with Dutch socialist Frans Timmermans in pole position to be named the EU’s next chief executive, diplomats and officials said. German Chancellor Angela Merkel addresses the media ahead of a European Union leaders summit that aims to select candidates for top EU institution jobs, in Brussels, Belgium June 30, 2019. REUTERS/Johanna Geron Following are comments by EU leaders as they arrived for the summit in Brussels. GERMAN CHANCELLOR ANGELA MERKEL “We will make our proposal for the Commission presidency and we will also discuss other top jobs. It looks like the talks will not be very easy.” BRITISH PRIME MINISTER THERESA MAY (ON BREXIT) “I have always been very clear that I think the best approach for the UK is first of all ensure that we are delivering on the vote that took place in 2016, leaving the European Union but we do that with a good deal so that we can do that in an orderly way. I still think we negotiated a good deal. I wasn’t able to get a majority in parliament for that deal, it will be up to my successor to get that majority, deliver on that vote and take us forward.” POLISH PRIME MINISTER MATEUSZ MORAWIECKI “Frans Timmermans is not a candidate of compromise. Frans Timmermans is obviously a candidate who divides Europe and certainly does not understand central Europe, does not understand Europe that is emerging from a post-communist collapse.” FRENCH PRESIDENT EMMANUEL MACRON “It’s important for me that we are able to emerge from this Council with answers and the new team.” “This is the new team that we are going to decide on, for three of the names today, for the ECB probably a little later.” “There should be two men and two women (referring to the council of EU leaders who is responsible for nominating four key positions - including the president of the European Commission and the president of the ECB).” DUTCH PRIME MINISTER MARK RUTTE “I hope that we make a decision tonight. And that we don’t just get to a choice about the chief of the European Commission but if possible to a whole package.” “Yeah, I’m not going to talk about names, I also hear all kinds of rumors. We’re going to try to get a decision tonight.” “That you think that one candidate or another may have a chance and then that appears to change again. So we’re going to calmly wait tonight.” “It’s still really unclear who will become the President of the Commission. The fact is in Osaka there were a number of European countries, who of course also talked about the situation, but there are no concrete compromises on the table.” Slideshow (5 Images) CZECH PRIME MINISTER ANDREJ BABIS “The V4 (Visegrad group of central European countries) said at the beginning that we are against the Spitzencandidaten.” “(Timmermans for Commission president?) I’m afraid that this person is not really the right one to unite Europe, not divide it more. In the past we have a feeling that it was not very positive on our region and I am asking: where are the women?”

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A man is accused of stabbing a five-year-old boy who was on a walk with his mother in the Bronx early Sunday morning. WABC reported police arrested Jesus Felix, 26, and charged him with counts of assault, criminal possession of a weapon, and acting in a manner injurious to a child in connection with the incident. Police say Felix ran behind the mother around 1 a.m. in the West Farms neighborhood of the Bronx to stab the child. News 12 the Bronx reported that he used a knife with a black handle to stab the child in his lower back. The child was taken to a local hospital with a punctured kidney and is expected to survive. It is unclear whether Felix knew the child. A police source also told the New York Post that Felix was taken to a hospital to undergo a psychiatric evaluation. Instances of assault can be quite common in the Bronx. According to crime statistics from the New York Police Department (NYPD), there were 107 instances of felonious assault in the past week.

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The intensity with which the president tried to drive home his preferred narrative only highlighted how much he felt the need to do so — to proclaim a version of events that offers more than the reality that, after three meetings, North Korea continues to be a nuclear state, one that Trump himself has now legitimized on the world stage.

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After three years of turning up in Brussels only to be exiled to another room while the other 27 EU leaders ate a three-course meal and dissected Britain’s post-Brexit plans, Theresa May finally says a not-so-fond au revoir to the European stage on Sunday evening at her last summit. Here is a rundown of her visits. Start as you mean to go on Facebook Twitter Pinterest Theresa May and Jean-Claude Juncker in Brussels in October 2016. Photograph: Geert Vanden Wijngaert/AP It started with a “pfff”. Asked about Theresa May’s Brexit comments at her first EU summit, the European commission president, Jean-Claude Juncker, gave a gallic shrug and did his impression of a tyre with a slow puncture. In October 2016, three months after becoming leader of the Conservative party and taking the keys to Downing Street, the then unknown quantity that was the second female UK prime minister had arrived in Brussels – and treated the 27 other heads of state and government to their first blast of Maybo

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An African American man recovering from pneumonia says he was arrested after a white security guard and police officers racially profiled him when he went for a walk on his doctor's orders outside a northern Illinois hospital while attached to an IV machine and wearing a hospital gown. Shaquille Dukes, 24, said that what at first appeared to be a misunderstanding escalated into an unnecessary confrontation with police and prompted his arrest and the arrests two men with him. "As they began to take me to the car, I told them ... I never left the hospital property. And that's when he [a police officer] turned and said, 'Well you're off hospital property now,'" Dukes told ABC News. The incident unfolded just before 5 p.m. on June 9 outside Freeport Health Network Memorial Hospital in Freeport, Michigan, about 22 miles southeast of Grand Rapids, and was caught on cellphone video that went viral after Dukes posted it on his Facebook page. Freeport Police officials released police body camera footage of the episode, which the city's police chief said shows his officers "handled it in the best way they could ... given the situation that they had in front of them." Police officers responded to the hospital after receiving a radio call that a hospital security guard requested assistance with a patient who left the hospital with an IV. Freeport, Michigan Police Department In a police report of the incident, the hospital security guard told officers that after he questioned Dukes about why he was leaving the hospital attached to an IV, Dukes and the two men with him "got in my face" and began cursing at him. The security guard told police he felt "extremely threatened," acccording to the report. Dukes said that the only time he left the hospital property was when the security guard called him over to his vehicle parked in the street outside the hospital. He said that after attempting to explain that his doctor was aware he had gone outside for a walk after spending several days at the hospital, the security guard responded, "Well I don't care what they told you. As far as I'm concerned, this is hospital equipment and you're attempting to steal it." In the cellphone video Dukes posted online, the security guard is heard telling police officers, "He's stealing hospital property, basically, by leaving. I don't care if he was coming back, that's stealing." Dukes and his two companions, Marqwandrick Morrison and Credale Miles, were arrested on charges of disorderly conduct. "Our investigation revealed that at no time did any doctor or nurse give that patient or any patient permission to leave the hospital while still hooked to an IV machine," Freeport police officials said in a statement to ABC News. Dukes said he has filed a complaint with the city. "It was determined that he was likely not trying to steal any of the property. But the charges were supported for disorderly conduct with their actions toward the security guard," Freeport Police Chief Todd Barkalow told ABC News. FHN Memorial Hospital told ABC News that patient privacy laws prevented them from commenting on what they said was now a police matter.

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Former Vice President Joe Biden's campaign accused President Trump of "coddling" dictators in his meetings with North Korea's Kim Jong Un, Russian President Vladimir Putin and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan while overseas. "President Trump's coddling of dictators at the expense of American national security and interests is one of the most dangerous ways he's diminishing us on the world stage and subverting our values as a nation," Biden campaign spokesman Andrew Bates said in a statement to CBS News. The president held a last-minute meeting with Kim in the Demilitarized Zone separating North and South Korea on Sunday, becoming the first sitting president to set foot on North Korean soil. His meeting with Kim came after the G20 summit in Japan, where he met with Putin and Erdogan. As the president was flying back from his overseas trip, the Biden campaign said Mr. Trump "yet again fawned over Kim Jong-un — to whom he's made numerous concessions for negligible gain." The campaign said the president "joked with Vladimir Putin about our election security and 'getting rid' of journalists, and even expressed sympathy for Turkey buying Russian missiles." The statement came before Mr. Trump touched down on U.S. soil, a departure from the campaign's previous approach to criticizing the president while he is overseas. On his last trip to Asia in May, Mr. Trump indicated his agreement with Kim that Biden has a "low IQ." The Biden campaign waited until Mr. Trump returned from that trip to call his comments "beneath the dignity of the office." The latest exchange between Biden and the president also comes after the first Democratic primary debate, where foreign policy mostly took a backseat to domestic issues. On the campaign trail, Biden regularly emphasizes the need to strengthen relationships with U.S. allies, which Biden argues have been severely strained by the current administration. "His conduct reinforces that we urgently need a president who can restore our standing in the world, heal relationships with key allies Trump has alienated, and deliver real change for the American people," the campaign statement on Sunday added. Caitlin Conant contributed to this report.

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Larry Kudlow, the White House's top economic adviser, pushed back against criticism over President Trump's decision to reverse course and allow American companies to resume the sale of some products to Chinese tech giant Huawei, which the U.S. has long suspected of collaborating with the Chinese government in its international espionage efforts. When the president said on Saturday that he would allow U.S. corporations to "sell their equipment" to Huawei, barring any "national security problem," several lawmakers from both parties condemned the move, which appeared to be a reversal of economic restrictions the U.S. imposed on the Chinese firm for violating American sanctions against Iran. Republican Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida, a supporter of the White House's foreign policy, pledged that he and other lawmakers would introduce "veto proof" legislation to block Mr. Trump's decision if it meant that the White House had "bargained away" restrictions on Huawei. Although he said Rubio has "proper concerns," Kudlow, the director of the National Economic Council, told "Face the Nation" that Mr. Trump and administration officials are as "cautious" and "concerned" as lawmakers about the potential national security threats Huawei poses to the U.S. "The president is not backing off on the national security concerns," he said Sunday. "We understand the huge risks regarding Huawei." Kudlow's suggested the president's announcement on Saturday represented only a limited overture in efforts to try to break the months-long impasse in the trade dispute between China and the U.S., the world's largest economies. "What's happening now is simply a loosening up for general merchandise, maybe some additional licenses from [the Department of] Commerce," he added. "It is not the last word. The last word is not going to come until the very end of the talks. This is a complicate matter." The National Economic Council director said he's hoping to assuage concerns raised by Rubio and other member of Congress and make it clear that confronting national security concerns about Huawei remains an integral part of the U.S. strategy towards a growing Chinese economy. He said national security concerns about Huawei, whose CFO is facing extradition to the U.S. on charges of bank and wire fraud, will be addressed near the culmination of trade talks between the two economic giants. "We will fully address Huawei not until the end of the trade talks," Kudlow added.

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Petrol bombs thrown at Albania PM's office There have been anti-government demonstrations in the country for the last three months.

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In 2015 and 2016, Donald J. Trump was either written off as a presidential candidate, or relegated to the lowest tier by most pundits and many in the media. In 2019, Democratic Rep. Tulsi Gabbard of Hawaii has been similarly written off or relegated to the lowest tier of presidential candidates. Little surprise, then, that in an imprecise but telling snap-poll on the Drudge Report, she was declared the clear winner of the first Democratic debate by thousands who took time to vote. She also turned out to be the most-searched candidate from the debate on Google trends. TULSI GABBARD: 'NEOCONS' IN TRUMP ADMINISTRATION 'PLACED DYNAMITE AND LIT THE FUSE' FOR WAR WITH IRAN No one paid attention to Trump in the early stages back then and no one is (or was) paying attention to Gabbard now. During that first debate, a lot of war-weary, disenfranchised voters saw and heard someone who was speaking to their fears as well as their hopes. Except maybe the voters. In 2016, I sent an email to several members of the media a few weeks prior to the election predicting that Trump would get 306 electoral votes, including Pennsylvania's. It was not that I had any special insight. I simply tried to set aside all bias and factor in what I was hearing from actual voters from both ends of the political spectrum. As an example, one year before the election, I heard a very liberal friend in Massachusetts say, "This Trump guy is starting to make sense to me." That same week, I heard the same sentiment from a very conservative friend in Florida. They were canaries in the coal mine who no one wanted to hear from because of preconceived notions, partisanship, or outright hate. Those canaries are singing again. Early on, many of these same political and media "experts" decided that Gabbard was an asterisk to be ignored. The people may feel differently. For sure, Gabbard — who holds hybrid positions that appeal to both Democrats and Republicans — feels differently, and she is not shy about calling out those who either doubt her or who she feels have treated her and her campaign unfairly. Partly in response to the disrespect aimed in her direction, Gabbard said, "I think the media has such an incredible responsibility to report news and the truth and that’s just not what we see anymore … me and my campaign have been on the receiving end of very intentional smear efforts trying to undermine our campaign coming through, you know, NBC News quoting articles that are completely baseless. I did an interview with George Stephanopoulos and he says, ‘Well, you know this article in the Daily Beast says Putin supports your campaign.’ Based on what? Nothing. Really nothing." Voters have made it clear that experience and real genuineness are at the top of their list when looking for qualifications in a candidate. In Gabbard, they have a woman who has made real history and has broken glass ceilings by being the very first Samoan-American and first Hindu member of the United States Congress. She's a candidate who served her country as an officer in the United States Army while deployed in a combat zone in Iraq, and then another tour in Kuwait. She also wielded her military experience against Ohio Rep. Tim Ryan in the first debate when he suggested the United States must "stay engaged" in Afghanistan. "Is that what you tell the parents of those two soldiers who were just killed in Afghanistan?" Gabbard said. "As a soldier, I will tell you that answer is unacceptable ... we are no better off in Afghanistan than we were when this war began." In Gabbard, voters have one of the few acknowledged foreign policy experts in Congress. One who is correctly calling out the "neocon war hawks" continually supporting increased U.S. military intervention abroad, while also stressing that it makes no sense not to talk to the leaders of Russia and Syria if we are serious about defeating "the shared threat like al Qaeda and ISIS." More than that, she has also rightfully slapped the ever-increasing threat of nuclear war right back on the policy-discussion table where it belongs. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP During that first debate, a lot of war-weary, disenfranchised voters saw and heard someone who was speaking to their fears as well as their hopes. If I were someone in the Trump campaign, Tulsi Gabbard would be the last Democratic candidate I would want to see on the final debate stage. CLICK HERE TO READ MORE BY DOUGLAS MACKINNON

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SEOUL – Kim Jong Un and North Korea's nukes. Vladimir Putin and Russian election activities. Xi Jinping, China tariffs, and new talks on a trade deal. These issues dominated President Donald Trump's four-day trip to Asia for a G20 summit in Japan and a meeting with Kim at the border of North and South Korea border. And many of these same issues will linger in the months ahead as Trump seeks re-election, in part by claiming a new kind of foreign policy leadership. He hopes that includes a new trade deal with China and a new nuclear deal with North Korea, each of which he believes will help his domestic situation in the United States. "The leaders of virtually every country that I met at the G-20 congratulated me on our great economy," Trump tweeted at one point during the week, spotlighting another campaign issue. "We have the best economy anywhere in the world, with GREAT & UNLIMITED potential looking into the future!" Democrats, meanwhile, will try to cast Trump as an erratic leader who is too friendly with autocrats without getting anything in return. The Asia trip, they said, underscored Trump's weaknesses, including a tariff policy that hurts farmers and consumers. Democratic strategist Jesse Ferguson noted that Trump also spent a lot of time attacking domestic political opponents during his Asia sojourn, even in the presence of foreign leaders. "Trump should reimburse American taxpayers for his trip overseas," Ferguson said. A look at parts of Trump's agenda during his brief trip to Seoul and Osaka, Japan: China, tariffs, and the American economy CLOSE Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping have hit the reset button in trade talks between the world's two biggest economies, at least delaying an escalation in tension that had financial markets on edge and cast a cloud over the global economy. (June 29) AP During a meeting on the sidelines of the G-20 in Osaka, Trump and Xi agreed to re-start negotiations on a new trade agreement that had collapsed in May. As part of that deal, Trump agreed to hold off on new tariffs targeting Chinese products. A new agreement would also void existing tariffs, ending a trade war that Democrats plan to use against Trump at election time. Thanks to China's retaliatory tariffs,"manufacturers and especially soy farmers are hurting," Democratic presidential candidate Pete Buttigieg said during last week's debate. "Tariffs are taxes." Trump defends his tariffs, saying they brought the Chinese to the bargaining topic and have encouraged more people to buy more American products. Most economists disagree with him, however. Some Republicans are concerned that tariffs will hurt their electoral chances in 2020, and feel like Trump needs some kind of new deal with China. Matt Mackowiak, a Texas-based Republican political consultant, said “we know the tariffs are harming the agricultural industry." But Trump’s base, he said, trusts him on the need to fight what they call China's unfair trade practices. “It would benefit the Trump re-elect if he can put the trade war behind him, but he needs to achieve a victory for it all to have been worth it,” Mackowiak said, North Korea and Kim President Donald Trump meets with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the North Korean side of the border at the village of Panmunjom in Demilitarized Zone on June 30, 2019. (Photo: Handout, Dong-A Ilbo via Getty Images) Four months after Trump's second summit with Kim in Vietnam collapsed, the two met again Sunday in the Demilitarized Zone on the North and South Korea border. Trump became the first American president to actually cross that border and set foot in North Korean territory. After meeting for nearly an hour, they agreed to appoint "teams" to try and renew talks on a nuclear weapons deal with North Korea, even as the two sides remain at a basic impasse. The Trump administration says it won't move to lift sanctions on North Korea until it submits specific plans to dismantle nuclear weapons programs; North Korea says it won't provide plans until Trump removes sanctions. Many analysts question whether Trump will be able to get a North Korea nuclear deal to show voters at election time next year. They said Kim has no plan to give up his nuclear weapons. "Kim’s intentions all along were to trap Trump into an open-ended negotiation process from which Trump cannot retreat," said Sung-Yoon Lee, professor of Korean Studies with the Fletcher School at Tufts University. More: Trump arrives at G20 complaining about allies Germany, India and his host, Japan More: Trump's own brand of diplomacy is on display at G20. How will it fare with Valdimir Putin, Xi Jinping? Fooling Around With Putin CLOSE Years after Russian efforts to influence the 2016 election prompted investigations, President Trump asked Vladimir Putin not to do it again in 2020. USA TODAY Trump appeared to joke around when reporters asked him if he intended to warn the Russian leader not to seek to interfere in the 2020 election, as happened during Trump's victorious campaign in 2016. "Don't meddle in the election, president," Trump said in a less-than-serious manner as he wagged a finger at the Russian president. Putin just laughed. Trump also got caught on a hot mike telling Putin he wished he could "get rid" of some people who work in "fake news." This to the leader of Russia, a country where aggressive journalists have been known to wind up dead. Trump has condemned investigations into Russian election interference, calling them "a witch hunt" by people who are trying to make excuses for their election loss in 2016. Democrats often condemn Trump's seeming coziness with Putin and will try to exploit that at election time. After Trump's performance with Putin at the G20, Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris tweeted: "It's clear more than ever that the president is a national security threat." No rush with Iran, China, North Korea Trump's trip included an unusual verbal tic: frequent claims that he isn't in a "rush" or "hurry" to address some of these pending global challenges. Tensions with Iran over its nuclear program? "We have a lot of time," Trump said before a bilateral meeting with India Prime Minister Narendra Modi. "There's no rush. They can take their time. There's absolutely no time pressure." The potential China trade deal? "The quality of the transaction is far more important to me than speed," Trump tweeted Sunday. "I am in no hurry, but things look very good!" A North Korea nuclear deal? "We're not looking for speed," Trump said. "We're looking to make it right." Politics At the Summit Throughout his short trip to Asia, Trump attacked Democratic opponents even while appearing in traditional non-partisan settings. While attending a series of G20 meetings, Trump tweeted out negative comments about Democrats during their pair of presidential debates. He also ran down the opposition in a pre-meeting photo opportunity with German Chancellor Angela Merkel. At the final stop of the trip, a speech to troops at Osan Air Base in South Korea, Trump said Democrats "want open borders and to hell with the military." Trump is planning more foreign trips over the next 16 months pre-election. Don't expect him to quit politicking after he passes the water's edge. His political rhetoric in Asia did not go unnoticed back home. "In the old days, no one attacked a President when he's on foreign soil," Ferguson said. "Now, Trump pals around with our enemies on foreign soil and attacks America instead." 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Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi attends a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Osaka, Japan June 29, 2019. Sputnik/Mikhail Klimentyev/Kremlin via REUTERS CAIRO (Reuters) - Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi approved the 2019-2020 budget on Sunday, according to the official gazette. Egypt’s parliament had approved the government’s budget last week, and sent it to the president for ratification.

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Busing becomes focal point of Democratic primary after Biden-Harris debate exchange "Busing is certainly an option that is necessary in certain cases, but it is not the optimal," Sen. Bernie Sanders said Sunday on ABC's "This Week."

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What a difference a debate makes. Over two nights and four hours, the shape of the Democratic primary was re-shaped by the performances of 20 candidates, especially by the top five. For Kamala Harris and Elizabeth Warren, it was a game changer. For Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, and Pete Buttigieg it was game over. There is still a lot of time left in the primary but the effects of the debates for these candidates will be felt for weeks and perhaps much more. These first debates shuffled the top tier, with Harris and Warren gaining and Biden, Sanders, and Buttigieg losing support. Compare this to entering the debates, when it was Warren who had momentum, Biden and Sanders who were already losing support, and Buttigieg and Harris who were stalled in the polls. 2020 DEMOCRATS TAKE ON JOE BIDEN DURING FIRST DEBATE Harris is the one who made the most of her debate performance. As it turned to the issue of race, the California senator insisted that she speak, as she was the only person of color on the stage. And when Harris spoke, she not only helped her cause by attacking Biden, she badly wounded his as well. Coming out of these first two debates, could it be that the two strongest candidates to take on Trump in 2020 are women? As the front runner in the polls, Biden’s support has always been soft, as it was largely based on his previous service as vice president and his two runs for president. The third run has already been plagued by the same problems as the first two, and this debate exposed him in one particular exchange with Harris. Biden’s long record and his inability to explain or apologize for his past positions, was witnessed by 18 million people – even more the next day from all the coverage. Polls in the wake of the debate have shown a 10-point drop for Biden while Harris has more than doubled her support. Harris’ challenge to Biden exposed all of his weaknesses as a candidate and highlighted her strengths in one fell swoop. Her speech before the South Carolina Democratic Convention only days before the debate foreshadowed her debate strategy when she brought the house down going after Trump. Her surgical strike on Biden, raising his willingness to work with segregationists and his opposition to busing, made race an issue for him in this campaign. The fact that Harris as a child had benefitted from the busing policy opposed by Biden when he was a senator made a political hit personal and even more devastating as a result. Kamala Harris’ performance was also an antidote for the treatment of Anita Hill during the Clarence Thomas hearings, with Joe Biden as the common denominator. An African American lawyer who was badly treated during the Biden-chaired hearings, Hill has never gotten the hearing or apology she deserved. But, Kamala Harris’ challenge of Biden turned the tables on him 28 years later. The challenge now for Harris is whether she can consistently perform like the candidate we saw Thursday night. There have been glimpses. But, for Harris to win the nomination, she must make that candidate’s appearance routine. In comparison, Sanders and Buttigieg seem diminished in the wake of the debate. Sanders’ slide in the polls continues and his strategy to double down on 2016 points – anyone who followed the last presidential campaign recognized the Vermont senator’s debate performance – only reinforces that he is struggling to hold on to his base. The problem is it is no longer a one-on-one race where he serves as the sole repository of Clinton opposition. Rather, there were nine other candidates on stage with him and 13 more in the race. Given his standing in the polls right now, Sanders wouldn’t win the nomination. And it is hard to see how he increases his support in the primary let alone a general election if he is the nominee. Buttigieg is still reeling from the tragic police shooting of an African American resident of South Bend, Indiana, and that was evident in the debate as well. Buttigieg can’t seem to find his footing in this matter, despite trying in a variety of settings and Thursday night was no different. It is an important test for Buttigieg and it is one he has failed so far. It also brings to the forefront matters of race and his record. Buttigieg was already struggling to secure support with voters of color and this situation will make it worse. Buttigieg also uses his record as mayor as the rationale for his campaign to become president, and now that record is under scrutiny. Even his willingness to state in the debate that he “didn’t get the job done” when asked why the police department didn’t become more diverse under his tenure will haunt him. With his poll numbers stalled in recent weeks, the best Buttigieg can hope for in the wake of the debate is they stay there and he doesn’t lose more support while he tries to recover from his stumble. Elizabeth Warren’s performance on Wednesday night boosted her standing and she did it with the same consistent, methodical march to the nomination that she’s displayed since entering the race. As the only top tier candidate on Wednesday night, her performance wasn’t as dramatic as that of Harris’ the next night. However, she came out of the gate hitting her message and hitting her stride on a range of issues and with a plan for each one. With 490 days to go until Election Day we shall soon see if a wave of women voters will determine the fate of Donald Trump. But it was her support of eliminating private insurance in that debate that forced the other candidates to react to her the following night. That is a theme in this campaign, as Warren has led the way on policy, plans, and forgoing big donors and fundraisers – and forcing the rest of the field to respond. That is exactly what happened Thursday night. Of the five top tier candidates, three now support eliminating private health insurance; Warren, Sanders, and Harris, though Harris seems to be equivocating a bit post-debate. If it had been only de Blasio supporting it – as it was in the first debate, until Warren raised her hand in support – the other candidates would not have felt the same pressure. But once again, Warren was first and the others followed. Coming out of these first two debates, could it be that the two strongest candidates to take on Trump in 2020 are women? Both Warren and Harris demonstrated their ability to take on all comers, make their points, draw blood, and boost their standing in the process. Most importantly, they showed millions of people that they could successfully stand up to Trump. That is the most important factor to Democrats and many voters. So too is the ability to fix what Trump has broken. There’s no question they can do both. With Harris and Warren on the upswing, they are the candidates to watch – and Trump is no doubt doing just that. If either one should become the nominee and defeat Trump, that would be the ultimate antidote to the 2016 campaign. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP The signs are all there. Trump’s arrival to the White House has galvanized women politically like nothing else in recent history. The 2018 election results showed a record turnout and a record number of women winning office – a warning sign for the White House. And now the arrival of Harris and Warren is yet another one. With 490 days to go until Election Day we shall soon see if a wave of women voters will determine the fate of Donald Trump. That would be a fitting ending indeed. CLICK HERE FOR MORE FROM MARY ANNE MARSH

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Image caption Carolyn Harris had to take out a loan to pay for her son's funeral An MP is calling for the cost of children's coffins to be covered by the Welsh Government as part of an existing scheme paying for burials. Swansea MP Carolyn Harris has been campaigning on the issue since she had to take out a loan to pay for her own son's funeral. The Welsh Government scrapped burial and cremation costs in 2017. But Ms Harris said they were so quick to agree, they had not thought about introducing payment for the coffin too. Prime Minister Theresa May is expected to make an announcement on Monday outlining the UK government's plans, which are more comprehensive than those previously outlined in Wales and include payment for the coffin. Ms Harris said: "I have now spoken to colleagues in the Welsh Government and asked that they revisit the scheme to see if there's a potential there to include the cost of the coffin." She added she was "immensely grateful" to the Welsh Government, for reacting so quickly - within six months - to her appeal to help with the cost of child funerals. Ms Harris said she was "delighted" that after three years the UK government was also taking action. The Welsh Government has been asked to comment.

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Border Patrol officials in the Yuma Sector announced the building of an additional temporary migrant shelter in response to “sustained large volumes of family units in the Arizona sector. Sector officials opened the new shelter for tours late last week. Border Patrol officials began construction of a new family shelter in the Yuma Sector” on June 15 in response to the strain on resources and facilities” due to the continuing unprecedented numbers of migrant families illegally crossing the border in southwestern Arizona, according to a statement obtained by Breitbart News. The shelter became available for tours on June 28 and is expected to begin housing migrants soon. The shelter is reported to be similar in design to other temporary facilities located in Donna and El Paso, Texas. It is expected to hold up to 500 migrant families and unaccompanied minors. “The temporary, soft-sided facility will accommodate up to 500 individuals in U.S. Border Patrol custody while they await transfer to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services-Office of Refugee Resettlement,” officials said in a written statement. “The temporary structures are weatherproof and climate-controlled for eating, sleeping, and personal hygiene.” U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) awarded a contract valued at just under $15 million to build the facilities. This includes showers, toilets, and syncs, officials reported. It also includes the perimeter monitoring equipment, office space, lockers, security, power, HVAC services, food, snacks, water, and custodial services, CBP officials stated. Construction on the project began just over two weeks ago and is part of the Border Patrol’s effort to secure the border and meet the humanitarian needs of the current border crisis. During the month of May, Yuma Sector Border Patrol agents apprehended 42,225 family units. This is up from 8,775 in May 2017 — a 381 percent increase, according to the May Southwest Border Migration Report. Additionally, Yuma Sector agents apprehended nearly 6,000 unaccompanied minors and nearly 6,500 single adults.

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Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar downplayed concerns that many of the other 24 Democrats vying for the presidential nomination are embracing progressive policy proposals that may alienate some voters and push moderates like herself away from the party in 2020. "I think there's room in our party for a legitimate debate," she said on "Face the Nation" Sunday. "I just think it's important to realize there's a lot more that unifies us than separates [us], that there's a lot more that unifies us than there is that divides us." Klobuchar was asked specifically about the two nights of the first Democratic debate in Miami, in which the more progressive candidates on stage dominated the conversation, vowing to implement sweeping liberal policies on immigration, health care and climate change and cast aside more incremental, pragmatic approaches touted by previous candidates like Hillary Clinton and former President Barack Obama. Current contenders like Julián Castro and Sens. Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris and Bernie Sanders pledged to decriminalize illegal border crossings and enact single-payer health care systems that cover undocumented immigrants, and under Sanders' plan, that effectively shutter the private health insurance system. Klobuchar conceded there's a "legitimate policy argument" among the largest Democratic primary field in U.S. history. She said she supports bold proposals to create a "Medicare for All" system and make college more affordable, but that her plans to enact such changes differ from those of other contenders. "I want universal health care, I just got a different way to get there," she said. "And as I said in the debate, I don't think that we should take away people's right to their private insurance and kick half of America off of their private insurance." However, Klobuchar stressed that all candidates should be focused on their foremost priority: thwarting President Trump's reelection bid next year. The Minnesota Democrat said the great political divide that exists right now in the country is not between Democrats, but between the American public and the president, who she accused of failing to keep his word on campaign pledges. "He promised them pharmaceutical prices going down, they've gone up. He promised them infrastructure, he has done nothing. He promised them a safer world when he got out of the Iranian agreement. It is not safer," Klobuchar said. "That's the case we need to make."

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Widespread distrust of the Home Office’s counter-extremism strategy by British Muslims has been cited as one of the obstacles to mosques using a government scheme to protect places of worship from hate crime, after figures showed just 22 received funding last year. The £375,413 awarded to the mosques under the scheme is a tiny fraction of the £14m provided by a separate government fund for assisting the Jewish community. Applications by 24 mosques failed. While Muslim representatives do not criticise government funding to Jewish counterparts, they are pressing for changes to a wider scheme funding security for mosques, churches and temples at a time when most religious hate crime – 52% of all incidents last year – is aimed at Muslims. Obstacles to mosques taking advantage of the Home Office’s places of worship protective security scheme – which was given a boost in funding after the Christchurch attacks and reopens in July – include bureaucracy surrounding the application process and the inability of mosques in some of the country’s poorest areas to pay costs upfront before being reimbursed. The scheme had been closed at times when mosques needed to access it, including during Ramadan and after Christchurch, according to the Muslim Council of Britain (MCB), which laid out concerns in a document sent to the Home Office after carrying out consultations in April and May. Without serious changes, the MCB briefing says, the scheme “will fail to deliver the desired outcomes of good uptake, trust and respect among Muslim and likely other faith communities in Britain today”. Distrust of the government’s Prevent strategy has led some Muslim communities to ignore the fund, and instead fundraise to pay for their own security arrangements and training, according to the MCB. While describing the provision of £5m over three years to support security training as “well intentioned”, the document contrasted this with the much smaller pot (£1.6m) for available for ‘physical security’ pointing out that most small to medium sized places of worship lack basic CCTV and alarms “which are most urgently needed first before training.” Alarm was also expressed about the omission from the scheme of Northern Ireland and Scotland in light of Islamophobic attacks in both countries. The largest number of applications for funding last year came from mosques in the north-west and West Midlands, with 10 and 8 respectively, figures obtained by the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act show. Seven came from London, where one successful applicant received £9,283. Churches also continue to access the scheme, with nine receiving a total of £126,832.32 last year. A member of the inter-faith advisory panel, which overseas applications for funding under the scheme, said the uptake by mosques had been improving but that there was an ongoing debate with other members about how it should be changed. Fiyaz Mughal said: “There basically needs to be much more money provided to cover the scale of the threat. My own personal opinion is that the government cannot keep pushing the line that all of the communities are in it together. The government are playing politics on this and I don’t think that’s acceptable. They need to act on the basis of which community is most at risk.” Mosques received 46% of the total funding available last year, followed by Sikh Gurdwaras (37%), churches (16%) and Hindu temples (1.06%). A Home Office spokesman said: “We are proud of our Muslim communities and are absolutely committed to ensuring they, like everyone else, are able to practise their faith in safety and free from fear. “Earlier this year the home secretary announced he had doubled funding for next year’s places of worship protective security to £1.6m. We have also streamlined the application process to make it easier to apply.” It said more than a third of grants in previous rounds of the scheme had been awarded to mosques. ‘We have to take it seriously when someone says: “You’re next”’ Shattering a glass entrance door, the brick was thrown just minutes after a group of children had left the building last week, the third such attack on the Masjid Ibrahim mosque in east London in as many months. According to Asim Uddin, the chair of the mosque management committee, he and fellow worshipers in Plaistow have become resigned to having to largely fend for themselves when it comes to funding the security of their 18-year-old place of worship against the threats that have accompanied growing intolerance. “We have learned that it’s better to be self sufficient and use the resources that we have,” said Uddin. He said the mosque had a very good relationship with the police but criticised the Home Office’s places of worship protective security scheme, saying: “When we needed to get access it was not open.” “We’ve applied in the past but it’s quite complex. Then we were told that only 75% of the funding will be given,” he said, referring to how the mosque considered sourcing CCTV equipment. “It would have been £10,000 worth of equipment. We had to generate our own resources and then we were restricted to particular suppliers.” Volunteers helped secure the mosque over Ramadan, but Uddin said the Home Office scheme could be better used to provide wages for security guards. Those concerns were echoed by Mohammed Kozbar, the chairman of Finsbury Park mosque in north London, where one man was killed and nine others were injured when a van was ploughed into them by the terrorist Darren Osborne, who was jailed for life over the attack. A short-term increase in security was also put in place over Ramadan at the mosque, which tends to be on the receiving end of threats that typically multiply after events such as Christchurch. “We cannot afford to ignore them. You have to take it seriously when someone calls and says ‘you’re next’,” said Kozbar. Calls are now logged and suspicious mail is opened with gloves, after previous incidents in which white powder was sent in envelopes. Despite this, the mosque remains outward looking, welcoming homeless people for meals on a regular basis, for example. Outside hangs a large banner bearing a line from the Qur’an – “and made you into nations and tribes, that ye may know each other” – with a smaller poster on a wall beneath advertising free self-defence training for women. “As a small charity we have limited funds. At Ramadan, we had to find the resources we needed to hire extra security, especially for nights, but couldn’t keep it going,” said Kozbar. “The Home Office funding is not straightfroward to apply for. There is help for doors, locks, but many mosques have that in place. What we really need is help to pay for security personnel. Our people are volunteers and are not security professionals at the end of the day.”

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BRUSSELS (AP) – European Union leaders launched a new round of talks Sunday in desperate hopes of producing a breakthrough in a diplomatic fight over who should fill top leadership posts at the 28-nation bloc. Leaders of member countries have so far twice failed to make the key appointments, which include picking a replacement for Jean-Claude Juncker as president of the EU’s powerful executive arm, the European Commission, and for Donald Tusk as head of the agenda-setting European Council. Some discussed the roster of upcoming vacancies, which by November will include the EU’s top diplomat, the president of the European Parliament and the chief of the European Central Bank, on the sidelines of the Group of 20 summit in Japan that concluded Saturday. “There were a number of European countries in Osaka that discussed the issue, but there are no concrete compromises,” Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte told reporters as he arrived in Brussels for Sunday’s talks. Asked about likely candidates for the commission job, Rutte said “That’s a moving picture.” “You think that one candidate or another possibly has the best chance and it keeps shifting,” he added. French President Emmanuel Macron called for a “spirit of compromise and above all ambition” as the leaders look to name what he described as “the new Team Europe.” “There should be two men and two women” candidates for four of the five posts up for grabs in coming weeks, he said. Macron, like Rutte, declined to say who he was backing. The discussions about who should take the EU’s helm for the next five years and beyond could go well into the night, if not through it, warned Tusk, who will chair the meeting and said he would keep the leaders overnight and through early Monday if necessary. Tusk met with party and government leaders Sunday ahead of the summit. He wants nominations to be wrapped up soon, seeking to prevent further erosion of public confidence in the EU amid Brexit uncertainty and intra-bloc divisions over managing migration. The task will not be easy. The appointments must take into account political affiliation, geography – balancing east and west, north and south – population size and gender. The leaders of EU institutions are supposed to impartially represent the interests of all member nations on the global stage and in Brussels. But patriotism sets in as officials from individual member countries push candidates from their homelands to rule the roost of the bloc’s population of 500 million and the world’s biggest economic alliance. There was hope at the leaders’ June 20-21 summit that more time would bring views closer over who will replace Juncker at the commission. German Chancellor Angela Merkel backs German conservative Manfred Weber, whose centre-right European People’s Party is the largest political group in the European Parliament but lost seats in the EU elections in May. Macron has suggested Weber lacks the political and government experience for such a high-profile role. Weber could still be considered for the head of the European Parliament which is the EU’s only elected institution. “We are on a path that may make it possible to reach a result,” Merkel said in Japan before setting off for the EU summit. The German leader said there was still a good possibility for Weber and the centre-left top candidate, Dutch politician Frans Timmermans of the European Socialist and Democrats group, to be among the winners of the top positions. The European People’s Party, which is made up of Christian Democrats, and the S&D are the two biggest political groups in the EU, but both lost seats in May’s polls, where far-right and populist parties, pro-business liberals and the Greens made gains. EU leaders want to fill the positions soon because the European Parliament is set to pick a new president next Wednesday. Under EU rules, member countries choose who will run the Commission, replacing Juncker. The parliament must endorse that choice. But the assembly has insisted that only the lead candidates from parties that ran in last month’s elections should be eligible for the post. The commission proposes and enforces EU laws on policies ranging from ranging from the massive single market to agriculture spending, from competition issues to immigration. The job responsibilities are huge: Tusk and Juncker negotiate with the likes of U.S. President Donald Trump or Chinese leader Xi Jinping, while the head of the ECB can set monetary policy for the 19 nations that use the shared euro currency. The outgoing group of EU officials was lopsidedly Italian, with Antonio Tajani holding the parliament top post, Mario Draghi head of the ECB and Federica Mogherini the EU foreign policy chief. Top candidates include current prime ministers Stefan Lofven of Sweden and Andrej Plenkovic of Croatia. Others mentioned include Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier of France, Greens leader Ska Keller of Germany, Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite and Margrethe Vestager, the EU’s competition chief since 2014. ___ AP Writers Mike Corder in Brussels and Frank Jordans in Berlin contributed

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BEIRUT (Reuters) - Two bodyguards of a Lebanese Druze minister were killed on Sunday when his convoy came under fire as it passed through an area loyal to a rival Druze faction, in what the minister called an assassination attempt. Saleh al-Gharib, Lebanon’s minister of state for refugee affairs, is close to pro-Syrian Druze leader Talal Arslan. The area where the incident took place near Aley is loyal to anti-Damascus Druze leader Walid Jumblatt, whose Popular Progressive Party denied any involvement in the incident. In an interview with Lebanon’s al-Jadeed TV, Gharib said “what happened was an armed ambush and a clear assassination attempt”.

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Ivanka Trump listens to Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe (L) and France’s President Emmanuel Macron (R) talk at an event on the theme “Promoting the place of women at work” on the sidelines of the G20 Summit in Osaka on June 29, 2019. DOMINIQUE JACOVIDES/Getty Images Ivanka Trump has had her share of awkward moments on the world stage. After all, who can forget the time the audience groaned and laughed in Berlin when she called her father “a tremendous champion of supporting families” during a panel alongside Germany’s Angela Merkel and IMF chief Christine Lagarde. But that was nothing compared to a video released by the French government that is so awkward it may actually make you feel a tiny bit bad for the first daughter. The video shows a moment when Ivanka Trump appeared to try to get involved in a conversation between Justin Trudeau of Canada, France’s Emmanuel Macron, Theresa May of the United Kingdom, and Lagarde. And while no one actually says anything, some of the faces seem to make it clear that the first daughter’s input isn’t exactly welcome. Plus their body language speaks volumes as none of the world leaders seem to make any effort to make her feel included in their circle. Ivanka Trump appears to be trying to get involved in a talk among Macron, May, Trudeau and Lagarde (IMF head). The video is released by French Presidential palace. pic.twitter.com/TJ0LULCzyQ — Parham Ghobadi (@ParhamGhobadi) June 29, 2019 Perhaps the most expressive of them is Lagarde, who appears to roll her eyes at one point when Ivanka Trump tries to insert her two cents into the conversation. When Ivanka Trump speaks, Lagarde barely even looks at her. The expression on Lagarde’s face... https://t.co/6EmjwBlQue — Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) June 30, 2019 America feels you, Madame Lagarde pic.twitter.com/WTZGpPUKKk — Sulome Anderson (@SulomeAnderson) June 30, 2019 Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez commented on the video late Saturday, tweeting that it demonstrates how Ivanka Trump isn’t qualified to represent the United States on the world stage. “It may be shocking to some, but being someone’s daughter actually isn’t a career qualification,” Ocasio-Cortez wrote. It may be shocking to some, but being someone’s daughter actually isn’t a career qualification. It hurts our diplomatic standing when the President phones it in & the world moves on. The US needs our President working the G20. Bringing a qualified diplomat couldn’t hurt either. https://t.co/KCZMXJ8FD9 — Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) June 30, 2019

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Jeremy Hunt believes that an increase in defence spending will, “ensure that we keep Britain safe and walk tall in the world” (Report, 27 June). Really? When we still have food banks and 350,000 children living in poverty? Gwyneth Pendry Holyhead, Anglesey • It’s 2019, and of the 38 leading figures lined up for their photograph at the Osaka G20 summit, only three are women (soon to be two). How does that happen? Sue Giles Bristol • You say the Information Commissioner’s Office has “ruled that [the SNP] did not breach the Data Protection Act” when it sent thousands of letters from Nicola Sturgeon to wrong addresses (Report, 28 June). Not all breaches result in fines. The SNP may not have been fined, but that does not mean that there was no infringement of data protection law. If the ICO has indeed “given written advice on data protection practices”, this strongly suggests there was an infringement. Jon Baines Data protection adviser, Mishcon de Reya, London • “100 best books for the summer” (Review, 29 June) and not one sodding book of poetry! Fr Julian Dunn Great Haseley, Oxfordshire • Re amusing headlines (Letters 26 and 27 June), many decades ago there was a feisty Scottish footballer named Gerry Queen. Once, in a game at Crystal Palace, he was involved in a fracas, which produced the headline “Queen in brawl at palace”. David Browne Denham, Buckinghamshire • I remember a headline in a local paper the day after a Somerset batsman scored a century in town: “Virgin excites large Torquay crowd.” Jack Critchlow Torquay, Devon • Join the debate – email [email protected] • Read more Guardian letters – click here to visit gu.com/letters • Do you have a photo you’d like to share with Guardian readers? Click here to upload it and we’ll publish the best submissions in the letters spread of our print edition

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Governments need to start listening to survivors and ensure women have access to the services they need, says Anne Quesney

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Language use and the claims against Labour Steve Quinn on the misuse of language, Cath Ryde on what Chris Williamson actually said, and Joe McCarthy is dubious about the accusations made against Labour

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Bridget James is despondent about the inequality among institutions, Tony Pitman holds up Germany as a model and a teacher wishing to remain anonymous reveals the Orwellian world of multi-academy trusts It is difficult not to feel anything but despair when reading about the plight of our schools (Fewer teachers but more pupils, theguardian.com, 27 June). My three children attend a small primary school in Norfolk, a county where in the last week a wealthy and privileged independent school, Gresham’s, has become the “lucky” recipient of a £19m gift from James Dyson. I feel desperate that such inequality lies bare when so many exhausted teachers are working tirelessly to enhance the lives of children from all backgrounds. Amid the Brexit and leadership chaos, the unacceptable Tory lies that schools have more money are trotted out less, as the focus on what is happening in education is kicked down a long and dusty road. We’ve been seeing unprecedented cuts for a decade. The sector is on its knees, the Department for Education is topping the public accounts committee’s “departments of concern” list. Dyson isn’t going to bail out our schools, nor would any of us want him to. But it would be nice if this government did. Bridget James Swaffham, Norfolk • Far from taking Finland as an example (Letters, 29 June), why don’t we take a leaf out of Germany’s educational system? It did not scrap grammar schools, but kept them for those capable of benefiting from an academic education. Alongside this, it has highly efficient schools for those with a more practical bent. There is room for interchange between types of school and the selection is usually by cooperation between parents and teachers. And theirs is clearly the most successful society in Europe. In Britain, private schools have simply absorbed the demand that grammar schools used to fulfil, but they are not free. In Germany private schools are rare and specialised. Less, or no, state subsidy to private schools and the reintroduction of a state-provided academic education in every town would go some way to lessening the domination of private schools in virtually every aspect of our society. Tony Pitman Bradford-on-Avon, Wiltshire • As the school where I teach became

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Image copyright Peter Byrne Image caption Mr Johnson says he would add "minister for the union" to the job title of prime minister Boris Johnson would set up a "union unit" within Downing Street if he became prime minister, Secretary of State for Wales Alun Cairns has said. The unit would see how well the the nations and regions of the UK can exert influence in Whitehall and Westminster. Mr Cairns said: "This shows he accepts there are sensitivities in every part of the country as well as having the vision we need to deliver Brexit." Mr Johnson said he would add "minister for the union" to the job title of PM. Mr Cairns told BBC Wales a team of advisors in the unit would be tasked with looking at the impact of day-to-day issues on the union, and at whether or not there need to be departmental changes to better increase the voice of the union. Mr Johnson is widely seen as the frontrunner to become prime minister in the contest against Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt. Both men are taking part in a series of hustings across the UK to try to win support among the 160,000 members of the Conservative Party.

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An Israeli DJ performing on tour in Mexico died during an attack by suspected cartel gunmen who fired into the crowd. The attack killed the DJ and an assistant as well leaving two others wounded. The state where the shooting took place is one currently dominated by a faction of Los Zetas. The shooting took place early Saturday morning at an events center in the city of San Luis Potosi in the state by the same name. According to information released by the San Luis Attorney General’s Office, a group of gunmen arrived at the event center in the Tierra Blanca neighborhood and began shooting at several individuals inside before fleeing the scene. FISCALÍA DE SLP INVESTIGA HECHOS OCURRIDOS EN UN SALÓN DE FIESTAS DE LA CIUDAD CAPITAL •Resultaron dos personas occisas y dos lesionadas pic.twitter.com/TTjdGjedqu — Fiscalía San Luis Potosí (@FiscaliaSLP) June 29, 2019 Authorities rushed to the scene and found the body of 45-year-old Ronen Dahan, an Israeli citizen better known as DJ Perplex. Paramedics rushed three other shooting victims to a local hospital where one of them also died. Authorities only identified that victim as 31-year-old Alvaro (N). The state of San Luis Potosi is currently under the control of the Cartel Del Noreste (CDN) faction of Los Zetas — a violent criminal organization that has been terrorizing several other states in Mexico. As Breitbart News reported, the CDN is linked to numerous mass shootings at bars and other entertainment venues throughout their areas of operation. The shootings occur regardless of the presence of innocent bystanders. In recent weeks, Dahan, had been on tour throughout Mexico performing at numerous cities. He recently posted a video where he was enjoying local food during his travels. Ildefonso Ortiz is an award-winning journalist with Breitbart Border / Cartel Chronicles. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Brandon Darby and senior Breitbart management. You can follow him on Twitter and on Facebook. He can be contacted at [email protected]. Brandon Darby is the managing director and editor-in-chief of Breitbart Border / Cartel Chronicles. He co-founded the Cartel Chronicles project with Ildefonso Ortiz and senior Breitbart management. Follow him on Twitter and Facebook. He can be contacted at [email protected].

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NHS consultants can refer patients to private hospitals in which they have a stake Almost 400 NHS consultants own shares in private hospitals to which they refer patients, exposing them to a potential conflict between their income and patients’ best interests, new research reveals. In all, 371 senior doctors have a stake in some of the private hospitals that are earning more than £1bn a year from NHS trusts. These doctors are referring growing numbers of patients because understaffing and the soaring demand for care means the NHS is struggling to treat people quickly enough. Another 177 medical consultants own equipment in private hospitals such as CT scanners and lasers, 67 of whom earn a fee each time it is used, according to a study of links between NHS doctors in England and the private sector by the Centre for Health and

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The current political situation in Israel is “uncharted territory” and may lead to an election that could reorient the Israeli electorate as various parties across the political spectrum debate mergers, explained Breitbart Jerusalem bureau chief Aaron Klein. Speaking in an interview on Israel’s i24NEWS (video above), Klein was asked to comment on reports that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu was considering a proposal to cancel the September 17 election via a Knesset vote. It is not clear whether such a plan is legally valid. “It’s uncharted territory and so would a new election be uncharted territory,” stated Klein. “In fact, a new election I think could really be interesting right now because the question becomes, will there be a realignment or some sort of slight realignment of the Israeli electorate?” Klein posited that the ultra-Orthodox parties would be highly motivated to vote in an upcoming election, while rightwing parties that didn’t cross the electoral threshold in last April’s election are likely to unite, thus ensuring a stronger rightwing bloc by passing the minimum tally to enter the Knesset. The parties that failed to cross the threshold last time were led by Naftali Bennet and Moshe Feiglin respectively. Stated Klein: After Avigdor Lieberman turned the religious issue with the IDF into a crisis I think they (ultra-Orthodox voters) are going to come out in droves. So I think you are going to see the religious parties highly motivated. Also on the right you have also a reorientation of some of the parties that didn’t cross the electoral threshold last time. Bennett this time is not going to be as brazen as he was to have his own party. He is clearly going to unite. You’ve got Moshe Feiglin also and (Ayelet) Shaked. Addressing the ramifications of former Prime Minister Ehud Barak announcing a new leftwing party to contend in the next election, Klein stated: The question more to me is whether he is going to divide the Blue and White vote. And then whether at the end of the day voters on Blue and White are going to be a little less motivated to come out at all. … A lot of Israelis might just be angry at the overall situation and stay home. But the rightwing might not. The leftwing might not. It’s unpredictable. Klein contended that there is a strong likelihood of a merger between the leftist Labor and Meretz parties, both of which fared poorly last April. And he said Meretz may attempt to shift its tactics to focus more on social issues instead of the unpopular two-state solution. He opined: When you look at the April election it was a referendum in some ways on the rightwing vote right now. At least in 2019 the way the Israeli electorate believes let’s say a little bit less or a lot less in the so-called two state solution, which was a lot of the main driving force behind Meretz’s latest campaign. So are they going to now switch the conversation from a two state solution, joining with Labor, to more social issues? And is that even enough to cobble together something? Meanwhile, unpredictable events in the Middle East could impact the vote in unforeseeable ways, Klein explained. “So much can happen between now and the election on so many levels. With Iran. Is there going to be a confrontation in the Middle East? If there is, that within itself could change things probably more in the favor of Bibi (Netanyahu).”

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Home Depot co-founder Bernie Marcus revealed in a recent interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution that he plans to donate the bulk of his billions to various charities, and help re-elect President Donald Trump. “I want to live to be 100 because I want to be in a position to give it away to those things that I really believe in,” said Marcus, who in the last 15 years has donated to a throng of philanthropic causes from medical research to autism research, veterans groups, and $250 million to build the Georgia Aquarium. “I’ve got all the houses I need. I live very well. My kids are taken care of. Everything I live for now is finding the right things to put my money into and that can give me a rate of return in emotion and doing good things for this world,” the 90-year-old executive told the paper. Asked how much he’s worth, Marcus said I “have no clue.” He instead believes the “key is how much can I give away this year?” A proud supporter of President Donald Trump, and donor to his 2016 campaign, Bernie Marcus has pledged to support the president’s re-election effort. “[Trump’s] got a businessman’s common sense approach to most things,” Marcus said. “…Now, do I agree with every move that he makes? No, I don’t. But the truth is he has produced more than anybody else. He has. If we look at this country, I would say that we are better off today than we were eight years ago or six years ago.” Never shy about his political beliefs, Marcus recently slammed the rise of socialism in American politics on college campuses across the country, warning that while the free market system he says created the “biggest middle-class population in the world,” socialism always end with a “lower standard of living for those under its thumb.” Follow Jerome Hudson on Twitter @jeromeehudson

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TEL AVIV – President Donald Trump said Saturday there will never be a resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict if a peace accord doesn’t happen while he is president, and added that his long-anticipated proposal has a “very good chance” of success. “With me being president, if you don’t get that deal done it’ll never happen,” Trump said at a press briefing at the end of the G20 summit in Japan days after the U.S.-led economic peace workshop in Bahrain. Despite the Palestinian boycott of his administration, he believes the Palestinians want peace, he said. “I know they want to make a deal, but they want to be a little bit cute — and that is okay. I fully understand where they are coming from,” he said, adding that it “may very well be the toughest deal of all.” “A lot of people think it can’t be made,” he said. Trump said his decision to slash U.S. aid for the Palestinians was because they said “nasty things” about him. “I ended that money because a year ago I heard they were saying nasty things and I said, ‘Wait a minute, we’re trying to make a deal, we’re trying to help them and they’re saying these nasty things, we’re not gonna pay,’” he said. “If you’re not negotiating and don’t want to help make peace, we’re not gonna pay you. So let’s see what happens,” he added. He also addressed Israel’s decision to go to elections last month after Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu failed to form a government. “The transaction was thrown up in the air a bit because of what happened with Bibi Netanyahu’s election. They thought he won and then all of a sudden he couldn’t put together the coalition and now they’re back to campaigning again,” he said. “So that was something that came up. Who would’ve expected that?” Trump added. “Maybe something will happen faster, but that’ll be going on for about three months.” Trump’s senior adviser and son-in-law Jared Kushner launched a $50 billion economic peace plan at the Bahrain summit last week. In his closing remarks, he told the absent Palestinians that the U.S. has “not given up on you” and the “deal of the century” should now be called the “opportunity of the century.” Kushner also acknowledged that prosperity for Palestinians is not possible without a political solution to the conflict. “Agreeing on an economic pathway forward is a necessary precondition to resolving the previously unsolvable political issues,” Kushner said. “To be clear, economic growth and prosperity for the Palestinian people are not possible without an enduring and fair political solution to the conflict — one that guarantees Israel’s security and respects the dignity of the Palestinian people.” However, he added that developing the Palestinian economy could result in “a real peace that leads to prosperity.” “We see tremendous potential,” he concluded.

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TEL AVIV – Bahrain’s foreign minister came under fire from critics in the Arab world who said that his decision to speak to Israeli media constituted “normalization” with Israel, an accusation the top diplomat rejected. “There are those who say this is normalization. This is not normalization. This is not even a step toward normalization,” Khalid bin Ahmad Al Khalifa told the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya news channel. The Bahraini diplomat granted interviews to the Times of Israel and Israel’s Kan public broadcaster on the sidelines of the U.S.-led economic peace conference in Manama. His comments, expressing his hopes for peace and acknowledging Israel’s existence, drew praise from Israelis. “You must send the correct message to the person you want to address and solve a problem with. That is the Israeli people,” he told Al-Arabiya. In an interview with Channel 13 last week, Khalifa said that the Palestinians had missed an opportunity by snubbing the conference. “It is always a mistake to miss an opportunity to achieve peace,” he said. “Yes, this has nothing to do with the [political] peace plan the U.S. will propose. But this was an opportunity that we wanted to see them here, but they chose not to come.” Addressing the Israeli public, Khalifa said: “You do have peace with Egypt and Jordan, and some kind of understanding with the Palestinians. But this is not the limit of the scope of where you belong. Israel is a country in the Middle East. It is part of the heritage of this region. The Jewish people have a place among us. So communication needs to be a prerequisite for solving all the dispute. We should talk.” Speaking to the Times of Israel, Khalifa said the economic workshop could be a “gamechanger” in much the same way that former Egyptian president Anwar Sadat’s visit to Jerusalem in 1977 was a precursor to the Camp David Accords and the subsequent peace treaty between Israel and Egypt. “As much as Camp David 1 was a major gamechanger, after the visit of President Sadat — if this succeeds, and we build on it, and it attracts attention and momentum, this would be the second gamechanger,” Khalifa said. While he would not commit to endorsing normalized relations with Israel anytime soon, Khalifa emphasized that Manama recognizes Israel’s right to exist, the report said. “Israel is a country in the region … and it’s there to stay, of course,” he said. Israel’s foreign ministry lauded his comments and said it would be inviting Bahraini journalists to Israel as a token of its appreciation. Khalifa has, however, been steadfast in endorsing the Arab Peace Initiative (API). He told Channel 13 that Israel’s rejection of the API is a “missed opportunity,” and urged it to rethink its position. Kushner last week denounced this notion that the U.S. peace proposal should adhere to the Saudi framework, saying, “if there ever is a deal, it’s not going to be along the lines of the Arab Peace Initiative.” “Opinions that the Arab Peace Initiative is lacking this thing or that thing have previously been proposed. The Arab Peace Initiative was presented and we did not see any positive welcoming of it, especially from the Israeli side,” he said. “We have not even heard them say: ‘Let us talk about the Arab Peace Initiative.’ Everything we have heard is either silence, rejection, non-acceptance or this is not enough or it is not right.” The API, initiated by Saudi Arabia, called for a Palestinian state along pre-1967 lines with a capital in eastern Jerusalem and a settlement of the so-called “right of return” for Palestinian “refugees.” The latter has been rejected outright by Israel, which views the return of Palestinians to their ancestral homes in Israel proper as spelling the end of the Jewish state by demographic means. In return for a full withdrawal from eastern Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and the West Bank, the Arab world would normalize relations with Israel, according to the plan. This would theoretically mean an Israeli withdrawal from the Jewish Quarter of Jerusalem’s Old City, the Western Wall and Temple Mount. Khalifa urged Israelis to discuss the issues they have with the API with Arab leaders. “Come and talk to us. Talk to us about it. Say, guys, you have a good initiative, but we have one thing that worries us,” he said. Addressing the rest of the Trump administration’s peace proposal, Khalifa said he was optimistic. “We have to wait. I cannot talk about something that I don’t know. But we hope that this political plan will also be attractive to everybody,” he said. “Look at the workshop. It’s very attractive. You don’t want to give an attractive offer and then come and bring something that could stall it. We want to see it continue on the same momentum. So we’ll see it.”

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KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A senior member of Sudan’s military leadership said unknown snipers shot at least five civilians and three paramilitary soldiers on Sunday as tens of thousands marched in the capital demanding a return to civilian rule. General Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo, the deputy head of the Transitional Military Council (TMC), did not say whether anyone died and gave no information on the gunmen or their affiliation during his short address on state TV. “There are snipers shooting at people, they shot three members of RSF and five or six citizens, we are upset and we want to get things under control,” said Dagalo, commander of the paramilitary Rapid Support Forces. “The snipers who are shooting at people will be brought to justice,” he added.

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(CNN) Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker used the occasion of World Pride and the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots to advocate for transgender kids Sunday. Pritzker signed an executive order aimed at ensuring schools have what they need to be "affirming and inclusive for transgender, nonbinary and gender nonconforming students," said a statement from his office. "This executive order is one more step toward securing Illinois' place as a leader in equality and hope," Pritzker said. "Under this executive order, ignorance is no longer an excuse for bigotry." The order establishes a task force to look at best practices and directs the state Board of Education to take several steps. Those steps include promoting LGBTQ students' rights in schools, and developing procedures for concerns such as student records, names and pronouns, and dress codes. "Ending the intolerable levels of discrimination and violence against our transgender community starts here -- in our schools -- by making the values of tolerance and respect just as much a part of our educational cultural as academics, athletics, and the arts," Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot said in a statement. Read More

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The Era of “Free” as a campaign platform is here, and millennials shouldn’t take the bait. In casting their hooks for the younger vote, the Democrat candidates at the first set of presidential primary debates showcased a platform of political bribery, including a radical push for “free college.” Next month, I will finish business school. It’s the culmination of 10 years in higher education, which started with a bachelor’s degree, then law school, and now business school—all while working full-time. It’s not a story unique to me— it’s a story shared by millions of students and graduates across our country. LIZ PEEK: THE WAY DEMS SEE THINGS, YOU ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR ANYTHING. AND THAT SPELLS DISASTER FOR AMERICA That’s why I can relate when fellow millennials, Republican and Democrat alike, decry the astronomical costs of higher education. However, the Democrats are overlooking or ignoring the fact that the rapid increase in tuition and other expenses we’ve experienced in recent years has been fueled by Big Government. For decades, the federal government has enticed students with subsidized, government-backed loans to fund their education, and the Federal Reserve Bank of New York found that this reckless expansion in government-subsidized credit has led to the colossal rise in the cost of college. Nothing is free, yet Big Government Democrats think we’ll take the bait in 2020. We won’t. Adjusted for inflation, the cost of college has increased by over 300 percent in the last three decades, resulting in a combined $1.5 trillion of student loan debt. Still, universities continue to waste billions of dollars on amenities you’d only expect at all-inclusive resorts: water park-style lazy rivers, gaming centers, hot tubs, gourmet kitchens, and movie theaters. Meanwhile, crippling student debt is destroying millennials’ ability to pursue the American Dream. These universities — which employ radical leftist professors and embolden heckling students on their campuses — strategically use administrative resources to enforce and indoctrinate others with their culture of political correctness. Today, a shocking number of public colleges and universities enforce “safe spaces” and “speech zones” that blatantly restrict students’ First Amendment rights in order to prevent them from offending each other. Because sometimes the lazy river is just too hostile, I guess. Wouldn’t it be nice to see a college hire a Vice President of Rational Spending, or a Chancellor of Vocational Jobs? Unfortunately, that’s not something that mainstream Democrats are ready to accept. Thankfully, President Trump is steering the ship back on course. He has signed legislation or executive orders supporting career and technical programs, STEM education, and apprenticeships. He has also advocated for simplifying student loan repayment programs and imposing caps on student loan borrowing. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP A good education isn’t about getting a degree just for the sake of it — it’s about investing in a better future. My peers should support President Trump’s agenda, which encourages affordable education that actually prepares students for high-paying jobs in tomorrow’s workforce. Nothing is free, yet Big Government Democrats think we’ll take the bait in 2020. We won’t.

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Hollywood loves sequels. However, audiences who applaud spectacular but shoddy movies have only themselves to blame. Their reward is further-diminished versions, in which the original’s flaws are more glaringly apparent. On Sunday, Donald Trump launched the third instalment of his buddy drama with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, following the Singapore summit and Hanoi debacle. The last-minute talks, at the demilitarised zone between the Koreas, made him the first sitting US president to step on to North Korean soil – “making history”, in the awed words of credulous observers (and, of course, himself). That something is happening for the first time does not make it inherently momentous. There is a reason why his predecessors never did this, just as they never met Mr Kim’s father and grandfather. It gives legitimacy and status to a state responsible for what the UN has called unparalleled human rights atrocities, and whose only diplomatic tool is its nuclear weapons programme – and does so for little obvious return. A stunt designed by a president with an eye on re-election in 2020 did at least produce a pledge to revive working-level talks. (It is surely no coincidence that the national security adviser John Bolton, believed to have undermined previous talks, was busy in Ulaanbataar, Mongolia.) But reducing the heat is a low bar for achievement, and all the more so when Mr Trump did so much to raise the risks in the first place. The problem remains the same as ever, and the US position looks if anything worse. Mr Trump boasted after Singapore that North Korea was no longer a nuclear threat. On Sunday he insisted Pyongyang’s missile tests in May were not missile tests. Meanwhile, Mr Kim is enjoying a good month, having just waved goodbye to Xi Jinping, after the first visit by a Chinese leader to North Korea for 14 years. Moon Jae-in, the South Korean president, has been best supporting actor in this drama. But he did not join Mr Trump and Mr Kim for the sit-down meeting on Sunday. The first daughter and first son-in-law were hovering, however. Ivanka Trump’s international credentials were freshly burnished by the G20 summit in Japan, where she briefed on her father’s meeting with India’s Narendra Modi and, excruciatingly, attempted to break into a conversation with world leaders. Trumpian diplomacy is in large part a show, and North Korea knows it. Pyongyang’s disrespect for US special representative Steve Biegun, and its determination to keep talks at the very top, is evident. The very best outcome might be token gestures towards denuclearisation on Pyongyang’s side and sanctions relief on Washington’s. Just as plausibly, the cycle of summits and spats may continue while North Korea continues to develop its programme. Worse, Mr Bolton and an erratic president could take us down a more alarming path again. There is more at stake here than audience dissatisfaction. Unlike moviegoers, we cannot afford to simply walk away.

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Donald Trump had to publicly beg for a meeting with Kim Jong-un and to become the first sitting US president to go to North Korea, in order to get a promise of re-starting working level talks. Ivanka Trump says stepping into North Korea was 'surreal' Read more This is what substitutes for progress in Trump’s reality TV diplomacy. If progress comes of this, then the ridiculous pageantry will be forgotten. But Trump’s fawning over Kim has already squandered leverage and humiliated America. Over the last year, we’ve all watched Trump’s made-for-TV bromance with the world’s most brutal dictator. Trump thinks Kim is his “friend” and a “great leader”. He even claims he “fell in love” with a man who runs concentration camps and has people killed for speaking their minds. It would all be comical if it came from a Hollywood studio. But this is real life, with real lives at stake. Trump has embarrassed himself and what the US stands for by defending Kim’s human rights abuses. He even defended Kim over the murder of a US citizen, Otto Warmbier. Last year Trump wished the American people would treat him more like the North Korean people are forced, at gunpoint, to treat Kim. Here we are, stuck with a dangerous buffoon in place of a real president. And yet we still need to push for progress Trump has given away US leverage for nothing. His rush into a first summit was ill advised but tested a theory of top-down engagement. A second summit squandered an opportunity because Trump again rushed in without having a deal squared away in advance. This third meeting has proven just how easily Kim can extract propaganda gold from Trump. The world’s most powerful leader begging him on Twitter for a photo op. Trump is an easy target and Kim knows it. As he reportedly said when they met on Sunday, “If your excellency takes a step forward, you will be the first US president to cross the border.” The most important question is where this leaves us on the nuclear front. There’s still a possible deal on the table. When Kim and South Korean president Moon Jae-in met in Pyongyang in September and when Trump met Kim in Hanoi, Kim offered to close the Yongbyon nuclear facility in exchange for sanctions relief. Details need to be ironed out but the bones of a deal are there. An interim deal, if implemented, would be significant and could lay the groundwork for more progress. Kim supposedly promised on Sunday to restart talks, which more or less puts us where we were in the run up to Singapore. A year and three meetings later, after endless praise by Trump and nothing in return, we are ready for the working-level negotiators to meet! Fine. Trump might have been able to achieve this by sending Kim a private message that he is willing to compromise on sanctions, and, failing that, tweeting out the offer. But here we are, stuck with a dangerous buffoon in place of a real president. And yet we still need to push for progress. South Korea is asking the US to push forward with negotiations. We should hope for success. We should hope North Korea will finally engage in real talks. Until now, its diplomats have supposedly not been allowed to discuss the nuclear issue without Kim present, which has stalled progress. In the weeks before Hanoi the two sides had a deal set on the other main issues – opening liaison offices, returning the remains of more US soldiers, signing a symbolic declaration ending the Korean war – but the deal fell apart because North Korea wouldn’t discuss nuclear weapons until Kim arrived. We should hope Trump will compromise. He wants the appearance of progress badly enough he should be willing to compromise on partial sanctions relief in exchange for Yongbyon. I both fear Trump giving away the store – undermining the US-South Korea alliance – for progress, and accepting nothing because he doesn’t get everything, meaning complete denuclearization, which is what supposedly happened in Hanoi. Trump’s erraticism and lack of a strategy make both these fears legitimate. We should hope for North-South progress, so Trump should support inter-Korea economic projects. The two processes must go hand in hand. Trump cannot leave Seoul behind for photo ops with Kim. Ocasio-Cortez leads critics of video showing Ivanka Trump G20 chat Read more This may just be a propaganda coup for Kim. And as long as he doesn’t go back to the rapid pace of missile and nuclear testing, as we get closer to the 2020 election Trump will be even more inclined to portray engagement as progress. He will continue to lie about how he supposedly saved us all from a war and how being the first sitting US president to set foot in North Korea is somehow a great victory. Perhaps the most dispiriting part of the lack of progress is that the stage is set for progress if all sides can seize it. As a recent Center for American Progress report made clear, the politics in all relevant countries support a deal. But I fear Trump is just happy to be sold the same empty promises again and again and that North Korea will take advantage as long as he is willing to beg Kim for meetings on Twitter. I hope I’m wrong.

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Image copyright @biodunfatoyinbo/@busoladakolo Image example Biodun Fatoyinbo and Busola Daokolo Di #Churchtoo protesters don call on di Nigerian police to investigate di accuse say di Senior Pastor of di Common Wealth of Zion Assembly Biodun Fatoyinbo rape Busola Dakolo, di wife of of popular singer Timi Dakola. Di leader of di protest, Bukky Shonibare say in di next few weeks, dem go march to di police headquarters and di ministry of justice to demand for justice. Nigerians bin enta street for Lagos and Abuja on Sunday inside I no-go-gree to ginger Senior Pastor of di Common Wealth of Zion Assembly Biodun Fatoyinbo to step down afta di accuse, but Fatoyinbo bin don respond say e never rape anybody for im life before Plenti pipo para wen di tori break say im must step aside make authorities chook eye for di mata. Wetin don happun so far? Image example #Churchtoo protesters Two group carry placards Our tori pipo monitor di protests wey happun for Lagos and Abuja on Sunday. Pipo come out with different placards dey ginger for front of Coza for Abuja and Lagos. As dat wan dey happun, for Abuja, anoda group come out to counter in favour of Pastor Biodun Fatoyinbo. Police, soldier, DSS, NSCDC wey carry weapon na im join full ground to maintain peace and order during di protest. Dat Sunday no be day for first timer or new comer or visitor because dem search well-well before dem allow pipo enta service. If yopu no fit ansa di qweshion, three tins about Coza, security go bounce you for gate. Image example Protesters wey support Pastor Biodun Pastor Biodun never step down Di Sunday afta Dakolo accuse am, pipo bin dey wait to see weda Pator Biodun go show face for church and wetin im go tok. Im no disappoint as im show face for church towards di end of di service, even though e no preach any message, im tell im members make dem maintain peace and no confront anybody. Im no tok weda e go step down, instead e tok say im don hand over di mata to di elders of di church say dem dey handle am. Im add say: "If I no be pastor, I go still remain member of di church," Meanwhile di church don suspend one programme dem bin dey plan, 'The seven days of glory'. Image copyright Instagram/ @biodunfatoyinbo Image example Pastor Biodun and im wife 'My husband no be rapist' Pipo wey don dey wait to hear wetin Pastor Biodun wife, Pastor Modele Fatoyinbo get to tok about di whole mata get opportunity from her out on Sunday. "Even as unbeliever, my husband no go rape anybody," na wetin she fit tok before her husband tell her not to tok anything more den end di service. #IStandWithBusola Since Dakolo tok her tori, many ogbonge pipo for Nigeria, celebrities and oda influencers don take stand. Even as some lawyers don dey ginger to epp with court case, some oda pipo don dey pledge money to epp fight di mata if e land for court. Skip Twitter post by @DrJoeAbah I have seen Biodun Fatoyinbo’s statement. I look forward to him carrying out his threat to sue Busola Dakolo. As Mrs Dakolo doesn’t have a church that can fund her defence, I have set aside a little money to contribute to her defence. Please do so too. #IStandWithBusolaDakolo — Dr. Joe Abah (@DrJoeAbah) June 28, 2019 Skip Twitter post by @abikedabiri @timidakolo , what can I say about your wife! A woman of strength, courage. We all, as women, must rise up and demand justice. I sponsored the violence against persons bill which prescribes life imprisonment for rape!!Busola, you’ve got my back ! — Abike Dabiri-Erewa (@abikedabiri) June 28, 2019 Di Dakolo's dey grateful Nigerian singer Timi Dakolo release statement to thank Nigerians on behalf of imsef and im wife for all di support dem don receive since Busola tok her tori. For di message im put on Instagram, Dakolo encourage oda survivors to tok dia own experience.

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Media playback is unsupported on your device Media caption Italian police arrested captain Carola Rackete at the port of Lampedusa The captain of a ship rescuing migrants said she disobeyed orders not to dock in Italy as she feared those on board would kill themselves. Carola Rackete, who could face prison, said her decision to enter Italian waters was "not an act of violence, only of disobedience". She said her aim was to get "exhausted and desperate" people onto dry land. Italy's far-right interior minister, Matteo Salvini, accused her of an "act of war" by trying to ram a police boat. After a two week stand-off with Italian authorities, Ms Rackete was arrested on Saturday for refusing to obey a military vessel as she navigated her ship into Italian waters near Lampedusa Island. The German skipper, whom Mr Salvini called a "pirate" and an "outlaw", is now under house arrest as she awaits trial. She could face 10 years in jail if convicted. Her ship was carrying 53 migrants rescued off Libya earlier this month, in an operation organised by the German NGO Sea-Watch. Image copyright Reuters Image caption Sea-Watch 3 was carrying 53 migrants rescued off the coast of Libya on 12 June In an interview published by Italy's Corriere della Sera newspaper on Sunday, Ms Rackete said she had not meant to put anyone in danger and had made an "error of judgement" when calculating the position of the police boat that she jutted into. She said she had disobeyed orders because some migrants had already started self-harming and she was "afraid it would lead to suicides". "For days, the crew had taken turns to stay on call, even at night, for fear that someone would throw themselves overboard. For those who cannot swim, that means suicide," she added. Sea-Watch spokeswoman Haidi Sadik told the BBC that the migrants were now receiving care on Lampedusa. She insisted that Ms Rackete had followed both maritime and international humanitarian law. "When you rescue people at sea you must take them to the nearest safe port," Ms Sadik said. Ms Rackete did not dock in Italian waters to make a "political point" but to uphold her duty to rescue people, Ms Sadik said.